On May 9, 7:34 am, Klaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 5, 6:57 pm, Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > There's also the YAGNI factor; most folk would restrict using regular
> > > expressions to simple grep-like functionality and data validation --
> > > e.g. re.match("[A-Z][A-Z]?[0-9]{
On May 5, 6:57 pm, Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > There's also the YAGNI factor; most folk would restrict using regular
> > expressions to simple grep-like functionality and data validation --
> > e.g. re.match("[A-Z][A-Z]?[0-9]{6}[0-9A]$", idno). The few who want to
> > recognise yet anot
On May 5, 10:44 pm, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "UTF-8 Unicode" is meaningless. Python has internal unicode string
> objects, with comprehensive support for converting to/from str (8-bit)
> string objects. The re module supports unicode patterns and strings.
> PCRE "supports" patterns
On May 5, 10:06 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> -1 on this from me. In the past 10 years as a professional
> programmer, I've used the wierd extended "regex" features maybe 5
> times total, whether it be in Perl or Python. In contrast, I've had
> to work around the slowness o
On May 5, 6:28 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm not sure what your skill level is, but I would suggest studying the
> code, starting in on a patch for one or more of these features, and then
> corresponding with the module's maintainers to improve your patch to the
> point where it can be accept
On May 6, 1:52 am, Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On May 5, 5:12 am, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I believe the current Python re module was written to replace the Python
> > wrapping of pcre in order to support unicode.
>
> I don't know how PCRE was back then, but right now
Wiseman wrote:
> I'm kind of disappointed with the re regular expressions module. In
> particular, the lack of support for recursion ( (?R) or (?n) ) is a
> major drawback to me. There are so many great things that can be
> accomplished with regular expressions this way, such as validating a
> math
> Are there any plans to support these features in re?
This question is impossible to answer. I don't have such
plans, and I don't know of any, but how could I speak for
the hundreds of contributors to Python world-wide, including
those future contributors which haven't contributed *yet*.
Do you
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:52:15AM -0700, Wiseman wrote:
> > I believe the current Python re module was written to replace the Python
> > wrapping of pcre in order to support unicode.
>
> I don't know how PCRE was back then, but right now it supports UTF-8
> Unicode patterns and strings, and Unico
On May 5, 7:19 am, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wiseman wrote:
> > Note: I know there are LALR parser generators/parsers for Python, but
> > the very reason why re exists is to provide a much simpler, more
> > productive way to parse or validate simp
On May 5, 5:12 am, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I believe the current Python re module was written to replace the Python
> wrapping of pcre in order to support unicode.
I don't know how PCRE was back then, but right now it supports UTF-8
Unicode patterns and strings, and Unicode cha
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wiseman wrote:
> Note: I know there are LALR parser generators/parsers for Python, but
> the very reason why re exists is to provide a much simpler, more
> productive way to parse or validate simple languages and process text.
> (The pyparse/yappy/yapps/ generator here> arg
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| I'm kind of disappointed with the re regular expressions module.
I believe the current Python re module was written to replace the Python
wrapping of pcre in order to support unicode.
| In particular, the lack of support f
I'm kind of disappointed with the re regular expressions module. In
particular, the lack of support for recursion ( (?R) or (?n) ) is a
major drawback to me. There are so many great things that can be
accomplished with regular expressions this way, such as validating a
mathematical expression or pa
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