On 2010-04-10, Patrick Maupin <pmau...@gmail.com> wrote: > Trust me, I already knew that. But what you just wrote is a > much more useful thing to tell the OP than "Every time someone > tries to parse nested structures using regular expressions, > Jamie Zawinski kills a puppy" which is what I was responding > to. And right after regurgitating that inside joke, Chris > Rebert then went on to say "Try using an *actual* parser, such > as Pyparsing". Which is all well and good, except then the OP > will download pyparsing, take a look, realize that it uses > regexps under the hood, and possibly be very confused.
I don't agree with that. If a person is trying to ski using pieces of wood that they carved themselves, I don't expect them to be surprised that the skis they buy are made out of similar materials. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
