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On Fri, 27 May 2011 15:48:36 +1200, Gregory Ewing
<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> 
> It's for that reason that we tend to avoid using REs when
> possible, reaching for them only as a tool of last resort.

	I STILL haven't reached for them... For my purposes, a 50 line
procedure is more legible and easier to modify.

	Uh... Well... Let me modify that -- I think I have few in Forte
Agent's filters...

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