Python questions from C/Perl/Java programmer

[Grant Griffin]

François Granger wrote:
> 
> Grant Griffin <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote:
> 
> > (BTW, I
> > never figured out why bright guys like that can't understand that
> > newbies don't know how to "grep a FAQ" <<gesundheit!>>)
> 
> BTW, I don't have anything called "grep" on my Macintosh. And I have
> both Python and Perl installed ;-)

Don't worry, it's just a silly Unix thing. ;-)  You Mac folks probably
either don't need it, or else maybe you've got something that does about
the same thing, but's a whole lot easier to use.

That said, I grep almost daily on my Windows machine.  I have a DOS
version of grep that came with Borland Pascal about 10 years ago.  It
still works great.  (Microsoft is nothing if not backward compatible.
;-)

But it wasn't until I learned Perl that I found out what this nebulous
thing called a "regular expression" really was; since REs were my grep's
default mode, I had endless trouble whenever I tried to grep on about
anything but characters and numbers--because those things constituted a
regular expression I didn't intend.

one-man's-feature-is-another-man's-bug-<wink>-ly y'rs,

=g2
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