You can use regular expressions in python by using the “re” module. Both patterns and strings to be searched can be Unicode strings as well as 8-bit strings. Most of the regex module functions don’t force you to compile a regex object first, which I rarely do. You can easily use regular expressions by placing them inside python’s raw string notation using apostrophes.

I don’t know why I always forget how to do ranges, but I do. I guess it has something to do with the fact that I don’t expect it to be like C at all, and I don’t need to use it often enough to remember.