"Dinu C. Gherman" <gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de>, in <39C0D623.BCB291BE at darwin.in-berlin.de>: > Is there any background information available for this estimation as > well as on what should replace grep? almost certainly re. as for just why grep is obsolete, i'm far too new to Python to know, but i _do_ know re is a very good thing.