On Jul 21, 11:04 am, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The drawback is that it's a lot easier to mess up the edge cases if you > do that (as this thread has shown). The small speedup you get in > typical cases is quickly offset by extra debugging/testing time (or, for > that matter, arguing with c.l.py:ers over more or less contrived ways to > interpret the original post).
I disagree, from this thread, most of the erroneous solutions have been attempts to match the entire string. > Guess it's up to personal preferences for how to best help others. > Unless the OP explicitly asks for something else, I prefer to use simple > and straight-forward solutions with reasonable execution behaviour over > clever tricks or odd-ball solutions; it's not a JAPH contest, after all. [^LRM] *is* a simple and straight-forward regex - it isn't attempting to do any clever tricks or anything odd-ball. That said, I still think the sets solution is more elegant then the regex solutions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
