[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aahz) writes: > .So adding SNOBOL patterns to another library would be a wonderful > gift to the Python community...
Snobol patterns were invented at a time when nobody knew anything about parsing. They were extremely powerful (recursive with arbitrary amounts of backtracking) but could use exponential time and maybe even exponential space. These days, it makes more sense to use something like pyparsing. Or I wonder if it would be feasible to write something like Parsec for Python (Parsec is a parser combinator library for Haskell). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
