Whittle it on down

[Stephen Hansen]

On Wed, May 4, 2016, at 11:04 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Start by writing a function or a regex that will distinguish strings that 
> match your conditions from those that don't. A regex might be faster, but 
> here's a function version.
> ... snip ...

Yikes. I'm all for the idea that one shouldn't go to regex when Python's
powerful string type can answer the problem more clearly, but this seems
to go out of its way to do otherwise.

I don't even care about faster: Its overly complicated. Sometimes a
regular expression really is the clearest way to solve a problem.

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Stephen Hansen
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