Which regex syntax mode?
Tim Hammerquist
tim at degree.ath.cx
Sat Sep 16 18:34:04 EDT 2000
Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
> > and was wondering with RegExp syntax mode was most like Perl's syntax?
>
> Probably the awk variant, but forget you asked that: the "regex" module has
> been obsolete for years, and will probably go away someday. Use the "re"
> module instead: its syntax is a nearly exact clone of Perl5's regexp
> syntax. So you'll feel much more at home with that.
Thank you. I'm reading O'Reilly's Programming Python, based on Python
1.3, so it only mentions regex and regsub. I'm glad I asked. =)
> You're in for a bit of culture shock, though. There's nothing special about
> regular expressions in Python: they're just another kind of object,
> supplied by just another module, and the language proper knows nothing about
> them. Native Python programmers use regexps about as often as native Perl
> programmers actually use Perl OO <0.9 wink>.
I also come from C++, and welcome Python's true OO capabilities. Regex
are often overused, granted. But when they're only only option, they're
invaluable.
Thank you all. =)
--
-Tim Hammerquist <timmy at cpan.org>
You know, we've got armadillos in our trousers.
It's really quite frightening.
-- Nigel Tufnel, "This is Spinal Tap"
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