On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: > Another nice thing about regexes (as compared to string methods) is that > they're both portable and serializable. You can use the same regex in > Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. You can transmit them over a network > connection to a cooperating process. You can store them in a database > or a config file, or allow users to enter them on the fly. >
I wouldn't ever be transmitting them around the place, unless also allowing users to enter them. But I have done exactly that - a validator system that lets you put a header with a regex, and then string content below that. That IS one advantage of the regex. However, that's a very VERY specific situation. If I'm not asking a third party to provide the match condition, then that's not a reason to go regex. Chris Angelico -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
