Text Processing in Python by David Mertz -- published by Addison Wesley Publications of David Mertz  --  Gnosis Software Home  --  Code samples from the book  --  Errata

Sob story: I put up the above PayPal button a year or two back. A couple of you make donations each month (out of about a thousand of you reading the text each week). Tragedy of the commons and all that... but if some more of you would donate a few bucks, that would be great support of the author.

If you want to buy the printed version this Amazon link lets me get a small commission on each sale, about equal to the royalty from the publisher, but coming much quicker (and not affecting the eventual royalty; so I get double). Feel free to email me also.

In a community spirit (and with permission of my publisher), I am making my book available to the Python community. Minor corrections can be made to later printings, and at the least errata noted on this website. Email me at <mertz@gnosis.cx> .

A few caveats: (1) This stuff is copyrighted by AW (except the code samples which are released to the public domain). Feel free to use this material personally; but no permission is given for further distribution beyond your personal use. (2) The book is provided in "smart ASCII" format. This is converted to print (and maybe to fancier electronic formats) by automated scripts (txt->LaTeX->PDF for the printed version). As a highly sophisticated "digital rights management" system, those scripts are not themselves made readily available. :-)

	acknowledgments.txt	FOLKS WHO HAVE MADE THIS BOOK BETTER
	intro.txt	INTRODUCTION
	chap1.txt	PYTHON BASICS
	chap2.txt	BASIC STRING OPERATIONS
	chap3.txt	REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
	chap4.txt	PARSERS AND STATE-MACHINES
	chap5.txt	INTERNET TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
	appendix_a.txt	A SELECTIVE AND IMPRESSIONISTIC SHORT REVIEW OF PYTHON
	appendix_b.txt	A DATA COMPRESSION PRIMER
	appendix_c.txt	UNDERSTANDING UNICODE
	appendix_d.txt	A STATE-MACHINE FOR ADDING MARKUP TO TEXT
	glossary.txt	GLOSSARY TERMS

cover idea 1  --  cover idea 2  --  book flyer  --  regex chart  --  reader contributions

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As good place as any: While writing has been good to me, freelance work doing it has slowed down a bit this year. Anyone who might have some side contract work for this famous writer/programmer, please feel encouraged to contact me.