On 11/02/2015 09:23 PM, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: > On 11/02/2015 08:51 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: >> [...] >> Indeed, sometimes Jamie Zawinski's is often quite appropriate: >> >> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use >> regular expressions." Now they have two problems. > > Or its sometimes heard paraphrase: > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use > Python." Now they have two problems > The point being it's a cute and memorable aphorism but not very meaningful > because it can be applied to anything one wishes to denigrate. > > Of course there are people who misuse regexes. But I am quite sure, > especially in the Python community, there are just as many who fail to > use them when they are appropriate which is just as bad.
Judging by a few posts on the list lately, I'd say it is highly relevant to Python itself. Too many people have only a vague notion of a problem they'd like to solve and although they don't really understand the problem, they've heard Python is a good language to learn, so they ask how they can solve that problem with Python. Now, this certainly can work for a person who's already experienced in several languages and who already understands the problem. For others, it's very much now two intractable problems. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
