Al Sweigart on Nostr: I keep thinking that every programmer knows regular expressions, but the fact that ...
I keep thinking that every programmer knows regular expressions, but the fact that somehow the bit flags like re.IGNORECASE somehow made it into Python 3 without being refactored makes me think not a lot of people are paying attention to it.
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