On Thu, 5 Nov 2015 10:02 am, Seymore4Head wrote: > So far the only use I have for regex is to replace slicing, but I > think it is an improvement.
I don't understand this. This is like saying "so far the only use I have for a sandwich press is to replace my coffee pot". Regular expressions and slicing do very different things. Slicing extracts substrings, given known starting and ending positions: py> the_str = "Now is the time for all good men..." py> the_str[7:12] 'the t' Regular expressions don't extract substrings with known start/end positions. They *find* matching text, giving a search string with metacharacters. (If there are no metacharacters in your search string, you shouldn't use a regex. str.find will be significantly faster and more convenient.) Slicing is not about finding text, it is about extracting text once you've already found it. So they are complementary, not alternatives. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
