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The elusive Python sub-string extractor

#!/usr/bin/env python
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my_regex.py
functions to perform regular expression tasks
The monkey-see/monkey-do method (imitate, then figure out how to extend and vary)
1. Drive yourself nuts trying to get from the manual to being able to do a simple sub-string extraction
2. Cobble together some examples from google hits
3. Tinker, tinker, tinker
4. Find something that works and [...]

ZAHA HADID: THE FIRST GREAT FEMALE ARCHITECT

“to discover how her processes work would be to jeopardise them.” (as an lagniappe, contains a lively use, by the writer, of the word “verucca” as a putdown of architectural writing)

The Ashes - History - Lord’s

“obituary to English cricket which concluded that: ‘The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia’”

bit.ly, a simple url shortener

The unexamined (online) life is a notch closer to extinction

Willing suspension of belief


Tristero


Our Middle Name

Our Middle Name: “The many forms that a font’s ampersand can follow are generally informed by its historical context, the whims of its designer, and the demands of the type family that contains it: after the jump, a tour of some ampersands and the thinking behind them, along with an explanation of the storied history [...]

Helmut Krone Timeline

Helmut Krone Timeline: ”

  Helmut Krone. The book.
  Graphic Design and Art
  Direction (concept, form
  and meaning) after
  advertising’s Creative
  Revolution. Clive Challis
  The Cambridge Enchorial
  Press Ltd.
  ISBN 0954893107

Tantek’s Thoughts — 2008 February

Tantek’s Thoughts — 2008 February: “EMAIL shall henceforth be known as EFAIL” makes the argument for the return to synchronous 2-way communication or broadcast communication as the reasoned response to the pseudo-conversational style of email.

Seed: “So”

Seed: “So”“so” is an adverb with many senses. “So, where you been?” “I am so busted.” “So what?” Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster, 2002. http://unabridged.merriam-webster.com (24 Apr. 2008). It serves also as a rhetorical operator … [argument, argument ... so [recap] [conclusion].