Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:42 AM, Mats Peterson <matsp...@aim.com> wrote: >> Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson <matsp...@aim.com> wrote: >>>> A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t >>>> want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python >>>> regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl. >>>> Additionally my account has been suspended for 7 days. Such a dickwad. >>> >>> And this matters... how? What are we supposed to do about it? We are >>> not the Python Secret Underground, which emphatically does not exist. >>> >>> ChrisA >> >> I fear you don’t even know what a regular expression is. Then this of >> course won’t affect you whatsoever. > > Troll. A quick search of my Gmail archives turns up 18 threads in > which Chris has used the phrase "regular expression".
Not a troll. It's just hard to convince Python users that their beloved language would have inferior regular expression performance to Perl. Mats -- Mats Peterson http://alicja.homelinux.com/~mats/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
