On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 01:12:02PM -1000, David Mertz wrote:
> I did actually "write the book" on text processing in Python. I think it's
> painful and awkward, and a terrible idea.

*Text processing* is a terrible idea?

Or hammering the square peg of scanf into the round hole of f-strings?

Terrible idea or not, text processing is probably the second most common 
use of computing power, after games, and the second invented, after 
numerical calculations. I think we're stuck with it.


-- 
Steve
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