On Feb 11, 9:25 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:05:30 +0000, Steve Holden wrote: > > Geoff Hill wrote: > >> What's the way to go about learning Python's regular expressions? I feel > >> like such an idiot - being so strong in a programming language but knowing > >> nothing about RE. > > > In fact that's a pretty smart stance. > > That's a little harsh -- regexes have their place, together with pointer > arithmetic, bit manipulations, reverse polish notation and goto. The > problem is when people use them inappropriately e.g. using a regex when a > simple string.find will do.
Thanks for the tip-off, Steve and Steven. Looks like I'll have to start hiding my 12C (datecode 2214) with its "GTO" button under the loose floor-board whenever I hear a knock at the door ;-) Looks like Agner Fog's gone a million, and there'll be a special place in hell for people who combine regexes with bit manipulation, like Navarro & Raffinot. And we won't even mention Heikki Hy,*7g^54d3j+__= -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list