In article <mailman.4372.1387390692.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I've never contemplated writing a compiler, let alone actually written > one. It's like the comments along the lines of "you can't call yourself > a programmer until you've mastered regular expressions". Who makes comments like that? As far as I can tell, I'm the resident regexphile on this newsgroup, and I certainly don't say that. I find it frustrating that Pythonistas shy away from regex as much as they do. Yes, Python strings have a rich set of built-in operations which provide easy ways to do a lot of things traditionally done with regexes in other languages. Regex is a powerful tool, and programmers will improve their skill set by knowing how to use them. But that's not the same as saying you can't be a programmer if you don't know regex. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
