Antoine De Groote enlightened us with: > Can anybody tell me the reason(s) why regular expressions are not built > into Python like it is the case with Ruby and I believe Perl?
They _are_ built into Python. Python ships with the 're' module. > Python Culture says: 'Explicit is better than implicit'. May it be > related to this? The creators of Python chose not to include an extention of the Python syntax for regular expressions. It's a lot simpler to have a straight-forward syntax, and simply pass the regular expressions to the appropriate functions. Sybren -- Sybren Stüvel Stüvel IT - http://www.stuvel.eu/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
