a simple unicode question

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On Oct 21, 4:59 am, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.
42.desthuilli... at websiteburo.invalid> wrote:
> beSTEfar a écrit :
> (snip)
>  > When parsing strings, use Regular Expressions.
>
> And now you have _two_ problems <g>
>
> For some simple parsing problems, Python's string methods are powerful
> enough to make REs overkill. And for any complex enough parsing (any
> recursive construct for example - think XML, HTML, any programming
> language etc), REs are just NOT enough by themselves - you need a full
> blown parser.

But keep in mind that many XML, HTML, etc parsing problems
are restricted to a subset where you know the nesting depth
is limited (often to 0 or 1), and for that large set of
problems, RE's *are* enough.