Introduction to Python

Along with several other popular scripting languages, Python is an excellent tool for scanning and manipulating textual data. This article summarizes Python's text processing facilities for the programmer new to Python. The article explains some general concepts of regular expressions and offers advice on when to use (or not use) regular expressions while processing text.

This is a quick overview of Python script language. Dicussion includes comparison to other scripting languages, Using the Python CGI Module, debugging, and more.