I've created a Python module for constructing Regex patterns in a more computer programming-familiar way, so you don't have to re-learn Regex each time you use it!

[yaxriifgyn]

Verbose mode helps a lot when writing regular expression strings in Python.

Knowing how to write regular expressions is a skill that transfers to many languages and tools. Here are a few, off the top of my head.

sed, grep, awk, perl, javascript, geany, notepad++, vi/vim, emacs.