coding convention conversion

[Garry Knight]

In article <slrn94bnam.i0h.grey at teleute.rpglink.com> "Steve Lamb"
<grey at despair.rpglink.com> wrote:

>> the Python solution would probably be a fair bit longer.
> 
> How so?  The only part I got stuck on on the Python version was the
> \l\1
> construct in the regular expression.  Aside from that it was not
> significantly longer.

I meant longer as in the number of lines of code. I'd be very
interested in seeing the Python version.

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Garry Knight
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