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Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212.

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Date 2012-09-30 09:26 +1000
Subject Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212.
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.1656.1348961183.27098.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Tim Delaney
<timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally I voted for the Fierce Snake[1][2] as the delimiter, but it was
> voted down as "not Pythonic" enough.
> I'm sure they were using that as a euphamism for "Python*ish*" though.
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Taipan
> [2] It's is so pretty:
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Fierce_Snake-Oxyuranus_microlepidotus.jpg

A tempting idea, but it's rather a large delimiter. We should reserve
that for multi-line strings, I think. Although you may have a problem
with i18n; when you take your code to the southern hemisphere, the
snake will be facing the other way, so what you thought was an
open-quote marker is now a close-quote marker instead. Could get
awkward for naive coders.

ChrisA

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write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. iMath <redstone-cold@163.com> - 2012-09-28 17:31 -0700
  Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-09-28 20:35 -0500
  Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-09-28 18:42 -0700
  Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-29 02:58 +0100
  Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-09-28 21:17 -0500
  Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-09-28 21:25 -0600
    Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-09-29 03:30 +0000
      Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-09-28 22:50 -0500
      Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-29 10:38 +0100
      Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-29 20:05 +1000
      Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-29 11:50 +0100
      Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-09-29 11:04 -0600
      Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-09-30 09:26 +1000
  Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-09-28 22:42 -0500
  Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212. Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-09-29 00:25 -0400
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