[Pythonmac-SIG] Regular Expression tools?

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Wed May 4 05:14:50 CEST 2005


On May 3, 2005, at 11:08 PM, Lee Cullens wrote:

>
> On May 3, 2005, at 10:46 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>
>>
>> On May 3, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Lee Cullens wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Been here before, but it's been awhile and can't remember what I  
>>> used,
>>> and anyway that was a PC platform.
>>>
>>> So, if you use a Regular Expression tool (PCRE standard) for Python
>>> programming and your development platform is Mac OS X, would you
>>> please
>>> help narrow down the search for me.  All I seem to be finding are
>>> other
>>> platforms and/or not standalone.
>>>
>>
>> Python doesn't use Perl's Crazy Regular Expressions -- but RegExplor
>> <http://python.net/~gherman/RegexPlor.html> is what you want.
>>
>> I have a very slightly modernized version of the source in my svn at:
>> http://svn.red-bean.com/bob/RegexPlor/trunk
>>
>> Here's a binary that should work on Tiger.. but probably nowhere  
>> else,
>> it uses a standalone Python and everything but its PyObjC was  
>> built on
>> Tiger:
>> http://undefined.org/python/RegexPlor-20050503-Tiger.zip
>>
>
> Looks like just the thing, when I put Tiger up (waiting for DW and
> Retrospect).  For the moment I just wanted something for a couple days
> on 10.3.9 that I didn't have to go off on a tangent with to run.

I gave you the URL for the parent site, which should have a binary.   
The reason I gave a separate URL for Tiger was that RegExplor was  
built with an old version of PyObjC and is *not* compatible with  
Tiger... however it should work fine on Jaguar and Panther.

-bob



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