On 30Dec2012 12:32, Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> wrote: | In article <mailman.1467.1356885520.29569.python-l...@python.org>, | Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.b...@gmail.com> wrote: | > you may check the new regex implementation for python | > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex [...] | I'm not sure I like the fuzzy matching stuff. On the one hand, it can | be useful. On the other hand, people already complain about how | difficult it can be to read regexes. Once we add things like | {i<=1,d<=1,s<=1,2i+2d+1s<=4} in the mix, it's going to be total line | noise.
One might argue that people are not obliged to use the fuzzy matching syntax (or any other part, really). It should be a matter of taste. Of course, some people have bad taste:-) However if you need fuzzy matching, it is very handy if there's a library to hand that offers it. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line-noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line-noise with a mission in life. - The Llama Book -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
