Need help with a program

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Tue Feb 2 18:07:05 EST 2010


In article <mailman.1551.1264701475.28905.python-list at python.org>,
D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy at druid.net> wrote:
>
>If you have a problem and you think that regular expressions are the
>solution then now you have two problems.  Regex is really overkill for
>the OP's problem and it certainly doesn't improve readability.

If you're going to use a quote, it works better if you use the exact
quote and attribute it:

'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
regular expressions."  Now they have two problems.' --Jamie Zawinski
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import antigravity



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