Book review Python 2 6 Text Processing Beginner’s Guide by Jeff McNeil
Book review Python 2 6 Text Processing Beginner’s Guide by Jeff McNeil Jeff McNeil�s �Python 2.6 Text Processing: Beginner�s Guide� is a practical introduction to a wide range of methods for reading, processing and writing textual data from a variety of structured and unstructured data formats. Aimed primarily at novice Python programmers who have some elementary knowledge of the language basics but without prior experience in text processing, the book offers hands-on examples for each of the techniques it discusses � ranging from Python�s built-in libraries for handling strings, regular expressions, and formats such as JSON, XML and HTML, through to more advanced topics such as parsing custom grammars, and efficiently searching large text archives. In addition it contains a great deal of general supporting material on working with Python, including installing packages and third-party libraries, and working with Python 3. The first three chapters lay the foundations, covering a number ...