Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 25, 2:17ÿpm, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Rick Johnson > >> Did you read the very first sentence of the re module documentation? >> "This module provides regular expression matching operations *similar >> to those found in Perl*" (my emphasis). ÿThe goal here is >> compatibility with existing RE syntaxes, not readability. ÿPerl uses >> the (?...) syntax, so the re module does too. > > @Duncan and Ian: > Did you not read the title of my post? :o) " Python regular expression > syntax is not intuitive." While i understand WHERE the syntax > orientations from, that fact does not solve the problem. The syntax is > not intuitive, and Python should ALWAYS be intuitive! We should always > borrow ideas from anyone (even our enemies) when those ideas support > our ideology. Perl style regexes are not Pythonic. They violate our > philosophy in too many places. > Or we could implement de-facto standards where they exist.
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