Is Perl *that* good? (was: How's ruby compare to it older brother python)

[Paramjit Oberoi]

>>>getting dynamic HTML pages up and running quickly. Perl is great for
>>>its string-handling abilities. (On my Web pages, I actually call a
>>>Perl script from PHP precisely for this reason.)

I have always felt that just like Jason Orendorff's path.py module makes
working with paths so incredibly convenient, a similarly well-designed
regex.py might make text processing as easy in python as it is in perl.

Unfortunately I don't deal enough with regexes to have the motivation to
actually put this idea into practice.  Maybe someone who does can take a
shot at it?

-param