On Thursday, May 23, 2013 7:56:19 PM UTC+1, Mark Lawrence wrote: > On 23/05/2013 19:19, Andrew Edwards-Adams wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > > Funny old world, there doesn't appear to be working code but someone is > > already thinking about definite inefficiency. What evidence do you have > > to support this claim? > > > > -- > > If you're using GoogleCrap™ please read this > > http://wiki.python.org/moin/GoogleGroupsPython. > > > > Mark Lawrence
haha true Mark, I have made mistakes like this before become ok at coding VBA to achieve things in the most inefficient manner possible. Something that I will learn from for the current python coding project. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
