Re: Turkic I and re
On 2011-09-15 15:02, MRAB wrote:
The regex module at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex currently uses a
compromise, where it matches 'I' with 'i' and also 'I' with 'ı' and 'İ'
with 'i'.
I was wondering if it would be preferable to have a TURKIC flag instead
("(?T)" or "(?T:...)" in the pattern).
I think the problem many people ignore when coming up with solutions
like this is that while this behaviour is pretty much unique for Turkish
script, there is no guarantee that Turkish substrings won't appear in
other language strings (or vice versa).
For example, foreign names in Turkish are often given as spelled in
their native (non-Turkish) script variants. Likewise, Turkish names in
other languages are often given as spelled in Turkish.
The Turkish 'I' is a peculiarity that will probably haunt us programmers
until hell freezes over. Unless Turkey abandons its traditional
orthography or people start speaking only a single language at a time
(including names), there's no easy way to deal with this.
In other words: the only way to make use of your proposed flag is if you
have a fully language-tagged input (e.g. an XML document making
extensive use of xml:lang) and only ever apply regular expressions to
substrings containing one culture at a time.
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Re: using python in web applications
On 2011-09-11 02:50, Littlefield, Tyler wrote: I replied to that one off list I guess, but I figured Django was way more overhead than I wanted, doesn't really fit with solving the speed issue. Depending on your needs, you may find something like bottle or Flask a better choice then. Django can be scaled down a lot, but it's a full-featured framework at its heart. Bottle is pretty minimal (IIRC it doesn't even come with any templating). Flask is somewhere in between as it bundles Werkzeug (a pure WSGI framework) with Jinja (a template library) with some glue code. I have used Flask in the past but often found myself implementing half of Django anyway, which is why I eventually switched. When I only need a bare API with no database and without templates, I usually go for Bottle these days. If you feel like coding closer to the metal and care more about performance than readability, you might also find Twisted useful. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
