On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:04:23 -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > On 11/03/2015 05:33 PM, rurpy--- via Python-list wrote: >> I consider regexs more fundemental. One need not even be a programmer >> to use them: consider grep, sed, a zillion editors, database query >> languages, etc. > > Grep can use regular expressions (and I do so with it regularly), but > it's default mode is certainly not regular expressions ...
Its very name indicates that its default mode most certainly is regular expressions. Dan -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list