[Python-Dev] New regex syntax? (was: Some questions about maintenance of the regular expression code.)

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Brett Cannon wrote:
> Is there enough interest to actually put the time and effort into
> attempting to develop new regex syntax?

I would be excited about this.  I've long dreamed of a more
human-friendly way to do regular expressions.  Let's see if
there's interest here, and if there is enough, perhaps we can
discuss the details on a separate list (no point in having
more syntax arguments on python-dev until there's a concrete
proposal, i think).

> Ping has a module at http://lfw.org/python/rxb15.py that creates regexes
> patterns using a much more straight-forward syntax by using actual words
> to represent things; there are functions like 'maybe', 'exactly', etc.
> (don't know how powerful it is, though; he just showed it to me briefly
> two weeks ago).

It can do most things that i use regular expressions for.
I used it regularly for a while, but it's somewhat slow.


-- ?!ng