Re: Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 14)

2006-09-15 Thread Cameron Laird
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jack Diederich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: . . . >More than you ever wanted to know about the types of regular expression >engines and their history. > >http://groups.google.com/g

Dr. Dobb's Python-URL! - weekly Python news and links (Sep 14)

2006-09-14 Thread Jack Diederich
QOTW: "Regexps are a brittle tool, best tolerated in small doses." - Tim Peters "Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability" - Edsger W. Dijkstra eval(repr(var)) sometimes works for serialization but don't count on it. http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/t