On 11/03/2015 08:23 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> Grep can use regular expressions (and I do so with it regularly), but >>> it's default mode is certainly not regular expressions ... >> >> Its very name indicates that its default mode most certainly is regular >> expressions. > > I don't even know what grep stands for. > > But I think what Michael may mean is that if you "grep foo", no regex magic > takes place since "foo" contains no metacharacters.
More likely I just don't know what I'm talking about. I must have been thinking about something else (shell globbing perhaps). Certainly most of the times I've seen grep used, it's to look for a word with no special metacharacters, as you say. Still a valid RE of course. But I have learned to night I don't need to resort to grep -e to use regular expressions. At least with GNU grep, that's the default. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
