On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 1:41 AM, Antoon Pardon <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: > Op 09-03-15 om 14:35 schreef Chris Angelico: >> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Antoon Pardon >> <antoon.par...@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote: >>> It seems odd that one should need such an ugly expression for something >>> that is >>> used rather frequently for parsing computer languages and the like. >> Possibly because computer language parsers don't use regular expressions. :) >> > Trying to be funny by being pedantic. Maybe your experience is different from > mine, > but it rarely seems to work IMO.
Not sure what you mean there - what "rarely seems to work"? I've never written a language parser based on regexps, which is the point of what I was saying. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
