On 20/01/2014 17:06, Rustom Mody wrote:
On Monday, January 20, 2014 10:10:32 PM UTC+5:30, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 20/01/2014 16:04, Neil Cerutti wrote:
I use regular expressions regularly, for example, when editing
text with gvim. But when I want to use them in Python I have to
contend with the re module. I've never become comfortable with
it.
You don't have to, there's always the "new" regex module that's been on pypi
for years. Or are you saying that you'd like to use regex but other
influences that are outside of your sphere of control prevent you from doing
so?
I don't see any way in which someone uncomfortable with the re module
would magically find themselves perfectly at home with the regex
module. The regex module is the re module with some extra features
(and complexity), is it not?
I wonder whether the re/regex modules are at fault?
Or is it that in a manual whose readability is otherwise exemplary the re pages
are a bit painful
eg reading http://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#module-contents
the first thing one reads is compile
http://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html gives "re — Regular expression
operations" and
http://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#regular-expression-syntax gives
"Regular Expression Syntax". Are you saying that the module contents
should come before both of these?
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