If you work with strings in your Python scripts and you're writing obscure logic to process them, then you need to look into regex in Python. It lets you describe patterns instead of writing ...

I'm pretty sure you need two calls to re.sub. This isn't a Python issue so much as a regular expression issue, and as far as I know this isn't possible.

I was involved in a recent discussion on the "best" way to remove a given parameter from a URL string. The conversation began with using string primitives to split and join the parameter, a method ...