builtin regular expressions?

Sat Sep 30 05:33:15 EDT 2006

Antoine De Groote enlightened us with:
> Can anybody tell me the reason(s) why regular expressions are not built 
> into Python like it is the case with Ruby and I believe Perl?

They _are_ built into Python. Python ships with the 're' module.

> Python Culture says: 'Explicit is better than implicit'. May it be
> related to this?

The creators of Python chose not to include an extention of the Python
syntax for regular expressions. It's a lot simpler to have a
straight-forward syntax, and simply pass the regular expressions to
the appropriate functions.

Sybren
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