On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:16:31 -0800, Chris Rebert wrote: > Your format seems so simple I have to ask why you're using regexes in > the first place.
Raymond Hettinger has described some computing techniques as "code prions" -- programming advice or techniques which are sometimes useful but often actively harmful. http://www.mail-archive.com/python-list%40python.org/msg262651.html As useful as regexes are, I think they qualify as code prions too: people insist on using them in production code, even when a simple string method or function would do the job far more efficiently and readably. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
