On 2011-06-03, ru...@yahoo.com <ru...@yahoo.com> wrote: > The other tradeoff, applying both to Perl and Python is with > maintenance. As mentioned above, even when today's > requirements can be solved with some code involving several > string functions, indexes, and conditionals, when those > requirements change, it is usually a lot harder to modify that > code than a RE. > > In short, although your observations are true to some extent, > they are not sufficient to justify the anti-RE attitude often > seen here.
Very good article. Thanks. I mostly wanted to combat the notion that that the alleged anti-RE attitude here might be caused by an opposition to Perl culture. I contend that the anti-RE attitude sometimes seen here is caused by dissatisfaction with regexes in general combined with an aversion to the re module. I agree that it's not that bad, but it's clunky enough that it does contribute to making it my last resort. -- Neil Cerutti -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
