On 20/01/2014 17:09, Neil Cerutti wrote:
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.
Regex was originally scheduled to go into 3.3 and then 3.4 but not made
it. I assume that it will again be targeted in the 3.5 release
schedule. Three strikes and you're out is a BDFL plan?
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