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Re: Letter class in re

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Date 2015-03-10 00:35 +1100
Subject Re: Letter class in re
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.206.1425908125.21433.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Antoon Pardon
<antoon.pardon@rece.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> It seems odd that one should need such an ugly expression for something that is
> used rather frequently for parsing computer languages and the like.

Possibly because computer language parsers don't use regular expressions. :)

ChrisA

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Re: Letter class in re Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-03-10 00:35 +1100

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