[Python-ideas] Proposed convenience functions for re module
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Jul 23 14:44:36 CEST 2009
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009, Ron Adam wrote:
>
> While we could allow regular expression input to work, for many
> applications it is overkill and it is too complex for many users. For
> example I would not like to try and teach my parents all the subtleties
> of regular expressions when they are struggling to understand a lot more
> basic things. They don't want to learn how to program computers, they
> just want to get a recipe that has [+chicken +"tomato sauce" -onions].
This sounds like a *great* addition to PyPI.... ;-)
(That is, something like this is unlikely to make it into Python unless
there's code that has seen uptake in the community.)
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