How to use the regular expression functions provided by the ‘re’ library to match, search, and replace text in your Python programs.

The code is surprisingly short, but don’t expect all the bells and whistles you might find in Python or even Perl. In the hands of the skilled, regular expressions are very powerful and offer a ...

Does anyone know of how to get the same behavior as in the Python implementation? Also, any suggestions on how to make the regular expressions "better" would be much appreciated.