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The power of back references and Python (pythonicprose.blogspot.com)
1 points by puttsmcfadden 5506 days ago
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Acorn 5506 days ago
Do not use regular expressions for parsing HTML.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/11/parsing-html-the-ct...

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puttsmcfadden 5506 days ago
I agree with your point about using backreferences as an html parser. I think the point of the post is regular expressions and back reference usage.
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