Conclusion: --------------- I agree with Bill Mill saying "I'd suggest that he [Xah Lee] actually make an effort at improving the docs before submitting them." so I am still waiting for the final version before deciding which docu is better, believing, that if Xah Lee puts more work and serious efforts into his attempt it could result in a docu clear superior to the existing one.
Argumentation: --------------------- Both documentations are different approaches and it is currently hard for me to tell which one is really better (the proposed is better structured, the existing provides information missing in the proposed). In both, the existing and the proposed documentation I am still missing a good introductory part showing what regular expressions are good for and what are the limitations, i.e. when is it better to use self-written code instead of regexs (including examples of both, very simple and more complex real-world problems). I would also miss some of the information removed from the docs in the proposed documentation. >From my point of view both, the existing and the proposed documentation assume some knowledge about regular expressions as such, so doesn't really explain, beeing limited to showing the syntax of usage. In other words, I am missing the "Pythonic approach" here. Claudio P.S. sorry for not including details in my comment, but to show what I mean would require rewriting the docs ... "Xah Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Steve Holden, the rewrite of the regex doc is instigated by your offer. it is published and announced here on April 18th. If you deem it proper, paypal me. It will be to your credit and easier to incorporate into the main doc. Xah [EMAIL PROTECTED] ? http://xahlee.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
