Re: regex multiple patterns in order

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2014-01-20 09:06 -0800
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Subject	Re: regex multiple patterns in order
From	Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>

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On Monday, January 20, 2014 10:10:32 PM UTC+5:30, Devin Jeanpierre wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Mark Lawrence 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?

I wonder whether the re/regex modules are at fault?
Or is it that in a manual whose readability is otherwise exemplary the re pages
are a bit painful

eg reading http://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html#module-contents
the first thing one reads is compile

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Re: regex multiple patterns in order Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-01-20 22:18 +1100
  Re: regex multiple patterns in order Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-20 09:52 -0500
    Re: regex multiple patterns in order Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-01-20 16:04 +0000
    Re: regex multiple patterns in order Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-20 16:16 +0000
    Re: regex multiple patterns in order Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 08:40 -0800
      Re: regex multiple patterns in order Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 09:06 -0800
        Re: regex multiple patterns in order Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-20 17:30 +0000
    Re: regex multiple patterns in order Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-01-20 17:09 +0000
    Re: regex multiple patterns in order Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-20 17:33 +0000

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