Code improvement question

[Peter J. Holzer]

On 2023-11-17 07:48:41 -0500, Thomas Passin via Python-list wrote:
> On 11/17/2023 6:17 AM, Peter J. Holzer via Python-list wrote:
> > Oh, and Python (just like Perl) allows you to embed whitespace and
> > comments into Regexps, which helps readability a lot if you have to
> > write long regexps.
> > 
[...]
> > > > > re.findall(r'\b[0-9]{2,7}-[0-9]{2}-[0-9]{2}\b', txt)
> > 
> > \b         - a word boundary.
> > [0-9]{2,7} - 2 to 7 digits
> > -          - a hyphen-minus
> > [0-9]{2}   - exactly 2 digits
> > -          - a hyphen-minus
> > [0-9]{2}   - exactly 2 digits
> > \b         - a word boundary.
> > 
> > Seems quite straightforward to me. I'll be impressed if you can write
> > that in Python in a way which is easier to read.
> 
> And the re.VERBOSE (also re.X) flag can always be used so the entire
> expression can be written line-by-line with comments nearly the same
> as the example above

Yes. That's what I alluded to above.

        hp

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