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 _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UXOAQMDSWTQPJUWGBZ4NFP66U5NZY2SS/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
