On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Pratap Chakravarthy <prata...@gmail.com> wrote: > The ball is in my court alright. But you have played my turn as well, with > your > explanations, and you played it good. Except for the paragraph about the > boss. I only beg to differ from your suggestion "... used sparingly, if at > all used".
OK, let's stop complimenting each other, and start challenging each other. > And I still beg to differ / OK, as you admit that the ball is in your court :-) please come up with a real-life example. I am not sure how to set up a comparison, but my contention is that in cases of uncontrolled input, regexs invariably break. The OP's case of parsing logs ideally is a case for regular expression, *provided* that the format of the logs is fixed. Regular expressions are entirely too rigid, for the most part. I believe that we are now in an age where intelligent parsers should be able to derive meaning from broken, and incomplete structures. After all, humans do the same, without hardly even thinking. Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
