Is Perl *that* good?

Kirk Strauser kirk at strauser.com
Mon Apr 26 18:05:07 EDT 2004


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At 2004-04-26T20:50:22Z, Paramjit Oberoi <p_s_oberoi at hotmail.com> writes:

> 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.

I haven't noticed much of a different between Perl's regex and Python's
re.py module, other than I'm now typing:

    pattern.match(string)

instead of

    string ~= pattern

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Kirk Strauser
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