Re: Variable-width lookbehind

2007-11-19 Thread OKB (not okblacke)
Tim Roberts wrote: > "OKB (not okblacke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> For years now Python has not supported variable-length >> lookbehinds. >>I'm just curious whether there are any plans to change this in >>Python 3.0, or before, or after. It seems that Perl 6 will allow >

Re: Variable-width lookbehind

2007-11-19 Thread Tim Roberts
"OKB (not okblacke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For years now Python has not supported variable-length lookbehinds. >I'm just curious whether there are any plans to change this in Python >3.0, or before, or after. It seems that Perl 6 will allow variable- >width lookbehinds (see http:

Re: Variable-width lookbehind

2007-11-19 Thread OKB (not okblacke)
Gary Herron wrote: > OKB (not okblacke) wrote: >> Paul Rubin wrote: >> >> >>> "OKB (not okblacke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> For years now Python has not supported variable-length lookbehinds. >>> I'm not sure what that is and the perl links

Re: Variable-width lookbehind

2007-11-18 Thread Gary Herron
OKB (not okblacke) wrote: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > >> "OKB (not okblacke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> For years now Python has not supported variable-length >>> lookbehinds. >>> >> I'm not sure what that is and the perl links you gave don't work, >> but it

Re: Variable-width lookbehind

2007-11-17 Thread OKB (not okblacke)
Paul Rubin wrote: > "OKB (not okblacke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> For years now Python has not supported variable-length >> lookbehinds. > > I'm not sure what that is and the perl links you gave don't work, > but it sounds evil. The links work fine for me. . .

Re: Variable-width lookbehind

2007-11-17 Thread Paul Rubin
"OKB (not okblacke)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For years now Python has not supported variable-length lookbehinds. I'm not sure what that is and the perl links you gave don't work, but it sounds evil. Basically it sounds like an even uglier form of regexp backtracking than what we hav

Variable-width lookbehind

2007-11-17 Thread OKB (not okblacke)
For years now Python has not supported variable-length lookbehinds. I'm just curious whether there are any plans to change this in Python 3.0, or before, or after. It seems that Perl 6 will allow variable- width lookbehinds (see http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/design/apo/A05.html and htt