On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:43:22 -0700, John Machin wrote: >> I reply here to all of you about such point: that's not important, >> although I appreciate very much your suggestions! My point was >> 'something that works in Perl, has problems in Python'. > > It *is* important; our point was 'you didn't define "works", and it was
ok... > near-impossible (without transcribing your regex into verbose mode) to > guess at what you suppose it might do sometimes'. fine: it's supposed to terminate! :-) Do you think that hanging is an *admissible* behavior? Couldn't we learn something from Perl implementation? This is my point. Bye -- Kirk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
