On 31 March 2017 at 09:20, Stephan Houben <stephan...@gmail.com> wrote: > FWIW, I also strongly prefer the Verbal Expression style and consider > "normal" regular expressions to become quickly unreadable and > unmaintainable.
Do you publish your code widely? What's the view of 3rd party users of your code? Until this thread, I'd never even heard of the Verbal Expression style, and I read a *lot* of open source Python code. While it's purely anecdotal, that suggests to me that the style isn't particularly commonly used. (OTOH, there's also a lot less use of REs in Python code than in other languages. Much string manipulation in Python avoids using regular languages at all, in my experience. I think that's a good thing - use simpler tools when appropriate and keep the power tools for the hard cases where they justify their complexity). Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
