Writing Regex for Humans (Regex with empathy, featuring Python and BeautifulSoup)

How to write regex with more empathy, so your coworkers will finally ask you to join them for lunch. As a context, we're gonna look at a web scraping scenario where you use BeautifulSoup to scrape an e-commerce site and want to now employ regex to find the section containing user reviews and e-commerce ratings.

Skip to 22:41 if you don't need the context and want to hop into the "write regex" part of the video.

00:00 You either love or hate regex
05:06 Regex to get shopper's reviews on ecommerce
08:49 Quick look at BeautifulSoup
17:30 What's the deal with regex anyway?
22:41 Doing our first regex find!
31:29 Regex Tip #1: interweave regex with comments! (write regex for humans)

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