Michael McGarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am just starting to use Python. Does Python have all the regular > expression features of Perl?
I can't vouch for "all", but the Python reference manual for the "re" module (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-re.html) says, "This module provides regular expression matching operations similar to those found in Perl". > Is Python missing any features available in Perl? Are you talking specifically about regex, or about the language in general? If the latter, then the answer is "Yes, and this is a Good Thing". If you meant the former, then I suspect the answer is that anything you can do with a Perl regex you can also do with a Python regex. I'm a pretty heavy regex user, and I've never found anything I wanted to do which I was unable to. The biggest difference between regex support in Perl and Python is that Perl has regex syntax built into the core language, while Python does it with a module that you have to import and then call functions inside that module. Which you like better is a matter of personal opinion. Like most Perl-Python feature comparisons, the Perl version usually ends up more compact, but the Python version ends up easier to understand. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
