Tim Chase, 08.04.2010 16:23:
Lie Ryan wrote:
Why am I seeing a lot of this pattern lately:
OP: Got problem with string
+- A: Suggested a regex-based solution
+- B: Quoted "Some people ... regex ... two problems."
or
OP: Writes some regex, found problem
+- A: Quoted "Some people ... regex ... two problems."
+- B: Supplied regex-based solution, clean one
+- A: Suggested PyParsing (or similar)
There are some problem-classes for which regexps are the *right*
solution, and I don't see as much of your example dialog in those cases.
Obviously. People rarely complain about problems that are easy to solve
with the solution at hand.
Stefan
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