On 2014-01-20, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Mark Lawrence > <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: >> On 20/01/2014 16:04, Neil Cerutti wrote: >>> I use regular expressions regularly, for example, when >>> editing text with gvim. But when I want to use them in Python >>> I have to contend with the re module. I've never become >>> comfortable with it. >> >> You don't have to, there's always the "new" regex module >> that's been on pypi for years. Or are you saying that you'd >> like to use regex but other influences that are outside of >> your sphere of control prevent you from doing so? > > I don't see any way in which someone uncomfortable with the re > module would magically find themselves perfectly at home with > the regex module. The regex module is the re module with some > extra features (and complexity), is it not?
It's a negative feedback loop. I'd have to use it more often than I do to get comfortable. There's no way a library, even a really good one, can compete with built-in syntax support. The BDFL must have wanted it to be this way. -- Neil Cerutti -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list