I answered a question on SO over a decade ago on this topic, back in the Python 2.7 era: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14545364/1204143 https://stackoverflow.com/

I answered a question on SO over a decade ago on this topic, back in the Python 2.7 era: https://stackoverflow.com/a/14545364/1204143 https://stackoverflow.com/a/14545364/1204143 One of these days it would be nice to make an unofficial Python reference book which documents these tools, hidden features (like re.Scanner!), and other corners of the stdlib or language.