Re: Whats up with re module vs pre

2005-02-17 Thread pythonUser_07
Like I said, I don't have a lot of specifics. This is more of an over time experience. I do know that any problem I had with "re" was always resolved by "pre". Maybe they all had to do with recursion though. Thanks for the heads up on python2.4. Now all I have to do is get our admins to instal

Re: Whats up with re module vs pre

2005-02-17 Thread Dennis Benzinger
pythonUser_07 wrote: > This is a very generic observation as I don't have a lot of specifics > with me right now. I have noticed over the past two years that the > python "re" module is somewhat unreliable. What do you mean with unreliable? Can you show an example where re does not work as expe

Whats up with re module vs pre

2005-02-17 Thread pythonUser_07
This is a very generic observation as I don't have a lot of specifics with me right now. I have noticed over the past two years that the python "re" module is somewhat unreliable. At the suggestion of someone quite some time ago, I started to use the deprecated "pre" module. "import pre as re". A