On 1/25/2012 20:24, Devin Jeanpierre wrote: > If all you're going to change is the parser, maybe it'd be easier to > get things to coexist if parsers were pluggable in the re module. > > It's more generally useful, too. Would let re gain a PyParsing/SNOBOL > like expression "syntax", for example. Or a regular grammar syntax. > Neat for experimentation.
I don't know what would be involved in that, but if it could be made to work, that sounds to me like a remarkably good idea to have come out of this thread. (Now it's time for my own troll: "About as good of an idea as no longer calling PCRE-alikes 'regular expressions', because they aren't." Ahhh, got that out of my system. :-)) Evan
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