On Jun 10, 6:17 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > lkcl wrote: > > On Jun 9, 11:03 pm, rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 9, 4:29 pm, lkcl <luke.leigh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> um, please don't ask me why but i foundgrail, the python-based web > >>>browser, and have managed to hack it into submission sufficiently to > >>> view e.g.http://www.google.co.uk. out of sheer apathy i happened to > >>> have python2.4 still installed which was the only way i could get it > >>> to run without having to rewrite regex expressions (which i don't > >>> understand). > >>> if anyone else would be interested in resurrecting this historic web > >>>browser, just for fits and giggles, please let me know. > >> Hi lkcl, > > >> My current conquest to bring a new (or fix the current GUI) in > >> Python's stdlib is receiving much resistance. I many need a project to > >> convince my opponents of my worth. Tell you what i do, send me a text > >> file with a pathname and all the line numbers that have broken regexs > >> using a common sep --space is fine for me-- and i'll fix them for you. > >> Here is a sample... > > > ok i've committed a file REGEX.CONVERSIONS.REQUIRED into the git > > repository, > >http://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser > > git://github.com/lkcl/grailbrowser.git > > > i used "grep -n" so it's filename:lineno: {ignore the actual stuff} > > > unfortunately, SGMLLexer.py contains some _vast_ regexs spanning 5-6 > > lines, which means that a simple grep ain't gonna cut it. there's a > > batch of regex's spanning from line 650 to line 699 and a few more > > besides. > > > of course, it has to be borne in mind that this code was written for > > python 1.5 initially, at a time when python xml/sax/dom/sgml code > > probably didn't exist. > > > but leaving aside the fact that it all needs to be ripped up and > > modernised i'm more concerned about getting these 35,000 lines of code > > operational, doing as small transitions as possible. > > The regex module was called 'regex'.
yes. there's a python module in 2.4 called reconvert.py which can "understand" and convert _most_ regex expressions to re. > I see that the name 're' is used as > a name in the code. bizarre, isn't it? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
