On Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:11:28 PM UTC+1, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2013.05.23 11:58, Andrew Edwards-Adams wrote: > > > Hi thanks for the reply Andrew, my first bit of code was heading in the > > right direction I was managing to pull out the usernames from the JSON, > > using REGEX. > > It's also worth mentioning that regexes are almost always the wrong tool, > especially for standardized formats like JSON. They can be very > > useful when nothing saner will get the job done, but are a nasty mess with no > real benefit otherwise. > > -- > > CPython 3.3.2 | Windows NT 6.2.9200 / FreeBSD 9.1
Thanks Andrew, yes I believe this is what the guy who provided me with the code was thinking. I was about to embark on what was definitely going to be an inefficient long regex. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
