On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 04:34:02PM +0200, Lorenzo M. Catucci wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Gregor Hoffleit <Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
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> > I wonder if we are the only ones reading this list. Is it possible to
> > see who is subscribed to the list ?
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> `An interested user', at least... BTW, I'm pondering on both your latest
> posting arguments (Jpython and python policy), as I think that both
> deserve a careful answer, especially the latter, which is of most use to
> me by now... (I know, I'm just a bit egotic...)
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> Just to let you know I'm hearing what goes here: do you really think
> someone would use a python without regexp? Just think about cgi, or better
> do a:
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> $ egrep \\bre\(\|gex\)\\b /usr/lib/python/*.py|grep import|wc
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> I see 46 lines, some of whose in important modules like {url,xmg,sgml}lib!
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> And later will write on more important stuff, keep tuned!
You're right. Python without any regex support won't be much so fun. OTOH,
there are useful things that will work even without regex, and even
more important, this might be an incentive to start work on an open source
Java regex library.
Gregor
