[Python-3000] Alternative to standard regular expressions

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Giles Constant <giles at spacepigs.com> wrote:
> unsure if this is the right place to voice my thoughts on such a thing,
> but given the idealism of python (particularly as an anti-thesis to much of
> the ideas of perl), after trying to fix a broken perl script late at
> night, It
> occurred to me that regular expressions are somewhat un-pythonic.  I actually
> find the python 're' module, although more versatile than regular expressions
> in perl, something that I always have to refer to the manual for, in spite of
> the number of times I've used it.  In other words, I'm tempted to stretch our
> beloved term "unpythonic" to regular expressions.  This is rare for a small
> python module.

Try the comp.lang.python or python-ideas mailing list. This list is
more devoted to the current development of Python than new ideas.



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Benjamin Peterson
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