* Steve Holden (Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:46:03 +0100) > Mirco Wahab wrote: > > Thus spoke Antoine De Groote (on 2006-09-30 11:24): > Tim Peters frequently says something along the lines of "If you have a > problem and you try to solve it with regexes, then you have TWO > problems".
It's originally from Jamie Zawinski: 'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.' And the simple reason why Regular Expressions are not a part of the core Python language is that Regular Expressions are overrated. They are simply not the preferred tool for every kind of text manipulation and extraction. Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
