f*cking re module

[James Stroud]

On Monday 04 July 2005 12:39 pm, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
> > > the only thing I want are the number of places blabla, Re modules
> > > sucks! and blabla are.
> >
> > Your question is still not clear.  What you're searching for is
> > '<python></python>', which isn't there, so .search returns None, and so
> > you get that exception (.group takes an argument, anyway).
>
> That's what I love in that news group. Someone comes with a
> stupid and arrogant question, and someone else answers in a
> calm and reasonable way.

Its perhaps that they remember the frustration of being new to programming. 
Those "wasted" 1.5 hr sessions getting nowhere add up pretty fast and then 
the explicatives begin to flow.

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