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i did work as a programmer when I was much younger, never in python or via regex though, my html , before getting into ebooks was very sketchy - I could do a home page with the aid of frontpage but that was about it ! ).
I actually worked on programming typesetting of complex books ( shipping resisters n stuff) at a computer bureau for a while but it was done in Fortran subroutines back then, and we had to join some bolshie newspaper/print workers closed shop union to be allowed to work on books! ( maybe have been the NUJ - National Union of Journalists - this was pre-Murdoch times in the UK when all newspapers were still printed in Fleet Street , and closed shop unions ruled the printing trade! )
I found regex very hard at first, but am now OK with basic find & replace via sigil or calibre - I can edit line feeds, chapter tags n stuff OK. I'm just learning it one command at a time, on a needs driven basis - something in an ebook has to annoy me enough to want to figure out how to fix it! ditto with css stuff, am slowly getting the hang of it & have enough OCD to want to e.g. make all books in a series use the same formatting - very sad :-)
I learnt last week ( driven by some dictionary hassles necessities) how to de-drm my purchased amazon books , so I can now reformat those if I care to. In fact "owning" an e-book that I could not actually edit would really annoy me. Took 1/2 a day but tis done now with a calibre plug in installed & working.
The teach yourself... in 10 mins book is very good also
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