Thus spoke MRAB (on 2006-09-30 20:54): > Antoine De Groote wrote: >> I just have to learn accept the fact that Python is more verbose more >> often than Ruby (I don't know Perl really). > > One of the differences between the Python way and the Perl way is that > the Perl way has a side-effect: Perl assigns to the variables $1, $2, > etc. each time you execute a regular expression whereas Python just > returns a match object for each, so it's not overwriting the results of > the previous one. I find the Python way cleaner.
This statement reduces to the fact, that - in Python you keep the matches if you want, but drop them if you don't import re text = "this is 5 some 89 stuff 12 with numbers 21 interspersed" matches = re.split('\D+', text) - in Perl you keep the matches if you want, but drop them if you don't $text = "this is 5 some 89 stuff 12 with numbers 21 interspersed"; @matches = $text=~/(\d+)/g; I fail to see the benefit of a re-object, I consider these to be just there because regexes aren't in the core language. Regards Mirco -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list