Jussi Piitulainen <jussi.piitulai...@helsinki.fi>: > Michael Torrie writes: > >> On 06/15/2016 08:57 AM, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: >>> Marko Rauhamaa writes: >>>> And nothing in alister's answer suggests that. >>> >>> Now *I'm* surprised. >> >> He simply said, here's a regex that can parse the example string the OP >> gave us (which maybe looked a bit like HTML, but like you say, may not >> be), but don't try to use this method to parse actual HTML because it >> won't work reliably. > > Interesting how differently we can read alister's answer. It was only > two sentences, one of which Marko replaced with "[...]" before adding > his own one-liner that is still quoted above. > [...] > > That followed the fully quoted original message, and then there was an > attributed citation from a Bengamin Disraeli, separated as a .sig. > > [...] > > A surprise calls for an explanation. Or should I say that I felt that > this particular expression of surprise seemed to me to call for an > explanation, or in the very least that an explanation would not do much > harm and might even be considered mildly interesting. And I saw a fully > adequate explanation: that the question was not about parsing HTML. So I > said so.
This is so meta. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
