On 19/12/2013 01:49, Roy Smith wrote:
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.
Idiots make comments like that, I've seen them in the past, and no, I
can't remember where :) As for me I'm not a regexphobe, more a
stringmethodphile. But I'm not going to use a dozen string methods when
one fairly simple regex will do the same job in one hit.
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My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.
Mark Lawrence
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