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Re: ignore case only for a part of the regex?

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On 30Dec2012 12:32, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
| In article <mailman.1467.1356885520.29569.python-list@python.org>,
|  Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> wrote:
| > you may check the new regex implementation for python
| > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex
[...]
| I'm not sure I like the fuzzy matching stuff.  On the one hand, it can 
| be useful.  On the other hand, people already complain about how 
| difficult it can be to read regexes.  Once we add things like 
| {i<=1,d<=1,s<=1,2i+2d+1s<=4} in the mix, it's going to be total line 
| noise.

One might argue that people are not obliged to use the fuzzy matching
syntax (or any other part, really). It should be a matter of taste.
Of course, some people have bad taste:-)

However if you need fuzzy matching, it is very handy if there's a library to
hand that offers it.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line-noise to the uninitiated, but to the
seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line-noise with a mission
in life.        - The Llama Book

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re: ignore case only for a part of the regex? Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@skynet.be> - 2012-12-30 11:24 +0000
  Re: ignore case only for a part of the regex? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-30 10:20 -0500
    Re: ignore case only for a part of the regex? Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2012-12-30 10:41 -0500
    Re: ignore case only for a part of the regex? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-01 04:14 +0000
      Re: ignore case only for a part of the regex? Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2013-01-02 00:09 +0100
        Re: ignore case only for a part of the regex? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-01-02 06:17 -0800
        Re: ignore case only for a part of the regex? wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2013-01-02 06:17 -0800
  Re: ignore case only for a part of the regex? Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom@gmail.com> - 2012-12-30 17:38 +0100
    Re: ignore case only for a part of the regex? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2012-12-30 12:32 -0500
      Re: ignore case only for a part of the regex? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2012-12-30 18:04 +0000
      Re: ignore case only for a part of the regex? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2012-12-31 11:29 +1100

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