Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail
From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Utility to locate errors in regular expressions
Date: 24 May 2013 13:58:37 GMT
Organization: Norwich University
Lines: 11
Message-ID: <b09a0dFj505U1@mid.individual.net>
References: <mailman.2062.1369400329.3114.python-list@python.org> <roy-14A84E.09121624052013@news.panix.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: individual.net MelNqxvQ0JG7dIMdJANtKw4Usl4j7gG0VREH1/2KKnt67l2BIv
Cancel-Lock: sha1:q2tf8jMHcEWXzHptW2spN/Lcx/0=
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1/mm/ao (Win32)
Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:45892

On 2013-05-24, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> Of course, most of Python user community are wimps and shy away
> from big hairy regexes [ducking and running].

I prefer the simple, lumbering regular expressions like those in
the original Night of the Regular Expressions. The fast, powerful
ones from programs like the remake of Dawn of the GREP, just
aren't as scary.

-- 
Neil Cerutti