when *I* google http://www.awaretek.com/tutorials.html#regular http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Python_Strings http://www.regexlib.com/Default.aspx
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html http://diveintopython.org/regular_expressions/index.html#re.intro http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ http://gnosis.cx/publish/programming/regular_expressions.html also look into ActiveStateKomodo reg ex debugger ( I think WIng IDE has it too -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
