Is Perl *that* good?

[Carl Banks]

Peter Otten wrote:
> Wallclimber wrote:
> 
>> I have to agree with the original poster. My *only* complaint about
>> Python are not regex search, but regex search and replace operations.
>> Perl   : s =~ s/(\w+)\s*=\s*(\d+)/$2 <= $1/g;
>> Python : regex.sub(s, "(\w+)\s*=\s*)\d+)", (lambda m: m.group(2)+" <=
>> "+m.group(1)))
>> 
>> I didn't try this out so there might be some syntax problems in there,
>> but you get the idea. Is there a 'nicer' way to do this in python?
> 
> Your example suggests that the Python equivalent for $1 is \1:
> 
>>>> re.sub(r"(\w+)\s*=\s*(\d+)", r"\2 <= \1", "a=1 b = 3 c = d")
> '1 <= a 3 <= b c = d'

You can do that?  LSNED.


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