[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Wolfgang Strobl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>SNOBOLs powerfull patterns still shine, compared to Pythons clumsy >>regular expressions.
>Keep in mind that Python regular expressions are modeled on the >grep/sed/awk/Perl model so as to be familiar to any sysadmin -- but >there's a reason why Python makes it a *library* unlike Perl. So adding >SNOBOL patterns to another library would be a wonderful gift to the >Python community... I don't believe you can get the benefit of SNOBOL matching without direct language support. There's only so much a library can do. However a valiant and interesting effort: http://www.wilmott.ca/python/patternmatching.html Eddie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
