In article <[email protected]>,
Joel Goldstick <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aside from django urls, I am not sure I ever wrote regexes in python. For
> some reason they must seem awfully sexy to quite a few people. Back to my
> point above -- ever try to figure out a complicated regex written by
> someone else?
Regex has a bad rap in the Python community. To be sure, you can abuse
them, and write horrible monstrosities. On the other hand, stuff like
this (slightly reformatted for posting):
pattern = re.compile(
r'haproxy\[(?P<pid>\d+)]: '
r'(?P<client_ip>(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}):'
r'(?P<client_port>\d{1,5}) '
r'\[(?P<accept_date>\d{2}/\w{3}/\d{4}(:\d{2}){3}\.\d{3})] '
r'(?P<frontend_name>\S+) '
r'(?P<backend_name>\S+)/'
r'(?P<server_name>\S+) '
r'(?P<Tq>(-1|\d+))/'
r'(?P<Tw>(-1|\d+))/'
r'(?P<Tc>(-1|\d+))/'
r'(?P<Tr>(-1|\d+))/'
r'(?P<Tt>\+?\d+) '
r'(?P<status_code>\d{3}) '
r'(?P<bytes_read>\d+) '
r'(?P<captured_request_cookie>\S+) '
r'(?P<captured_response_cookie>\S+) '
r'(?P<termination_state>[\w-]{4}) '
r'(?P<actconn>\d+)/'
r'(?P<feconn>\d+)/'
r'(?P<beconn>\d+)/'
r'(?P<srv_conn>\d+)/'
r'(?P<retries>\d+) '
r'(?P<srv_queue>\d+)/'
r'(?P<backend_queue>\d+) '
r'(\{(?P<request_id>.*?)\} )?' # Comment out for stock haproxy
r'(\{(?P<captured_request_headers>.*?)\} )?'
r'(\{(?P<captured_response_headers>.*?)\} )?'
r'"(?P<http_request>.+)"'
)
while intimidating at first glance, really isn't that hard to
understand. Python's raw string literals, adjacent string literal
catenation, and automatic line continuation team up to eliminate a lot
of extra fluff.
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