> > I feel like that borders on a bit too wordy...
I think the use of words instead of symbols is one of the things that makes Python so readable. The ternary operator is done with words: value = option1 if condition else option2 reads almost like English, while: value = condition ? option1: option2; Is just weird. I can read Verbal Expressions very quickly and understand exactly what's going on. If I have a decent IDE, I can write them almost as easily. I see no problem with wordiness if it means I don't have to stare at the code and scratch my head longer, or worse, open a reference to help me translate it (which is invariably the case when I look at regular expressions). On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Ryan Gonzalez <[email protected]> wrote: > I feel like that borders on a bit too wordy... > > Personally, I'd like to see something like Felix's regular definitions: > > > http://felix-lang.org/share/src/web/tut/regexp_01.fdoc# > Regular_definitions._h > > > -- > Ryan (ライアン) > Yoko Shimomura > ryo (supercell/EGOIST) > Hiroyuki Sawano >> everyone else > http://refi64.com > > On Mar 29, 2017 3:30 PM, "Abe Dillon" <[email protected]> wrote: > > My 2 cents is that regular expressions are pretty un-pythonic because of > their horrible readability. I would much rather see Python adopt something > like Verbal Expressions ( https://github.com/VerbalExp > ressions/PythonVerbalExpressions ) into the standard library than add > special syntax support for normal REs. > > On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:31 AM, Paul Moore <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 28 March 2017 at 08:54, Simon D. <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I believe that the u"" notation in Python 2.7 is defined by while >> > importing the unicode_litterals module. >> >> That's not true. The u"..." syntax is part of the language. from >> future import unicode_literals is something completely different. >> >> > Each regexp lib could provide its instanciation of regexp litteral >> > notation. >> >> The Python language has no way of doing that - user (or library) >> defined literals are not possible. >> >> > And if only the default one does, it would still be won for the >> > beginers, and the majority of persons using the stdlib. >> >> How? You've yet to prove that having a regex literal form is an >> improvement over re.compile(r'put your regex here'). You've asserted >> it, but that's a matter of opinion. We'd need evidence of real-life >> code that was clearly improved by the existence of your proposed >> construct. >> >> Paul >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > >
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