On Oct 21, 4:59 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. 42.desthuilli...@websiteburo.invalid> wrote: > beSTEfar a écrit : > (snip) > > When parsing strings, use Regular Expressions. > > And now you have _two_ problems <g> > > For some simple parsing problems, Python's string methods are powerful > enough to make REs overkill. And for any complex enough parsing (any > recursive construct for example - think XML, HTML, any programming > language etc), REs are just NOT enough by themselves - you need a full > blown parser.
But keep in mind that many XML, HTML, etc parsing problems are restricted to a subset where you know the nesting depth is limited (often to 0 or 1), and for that large set of problems, RE's *are* enough. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
