2007/11/7, Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Nov 7, 2007 12:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How similar is Python's re module (regular expressions) compared > > to Perl's and grep's regular expression syntaxes? > > > > Somewhat. > > > I really hope regular expression syntax is sufficiently standardized > > that > > we don't have to learn new dialects everytime we move from one > > language or shell command to another.
I forgot where I read that so can't back it up but: "Unices are just a collection of different dialects of regex" I think the same is true for about every implementation of regex you can find. In theory it _should_ be same. Then again, so should SQL but I bet that it's actually quite hard to find a single statement that you can literally execute it on all DB servers (major ones). -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/NoneIsYours -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list