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Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 22:10:30 +0200
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On 05/27/2011 03:47 PM, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article<948l8nF33pU1@mid.individual.net>,
>   Gregory Ewing<greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz>  wrote:
>
>> John Bokma wrote:
>>
>>> A Perl programmer will call this line noise:
>>>
>>> double_word_re = re.compile(r"\b(?P<word>\w+)\s+(?P=word)(?!\w)",
>>>                              re.IGNORECASE)
> One of the truly awesome things about the Python re library is that it
> lets you write complex regexes like this:
>
> pattern = r"""\b                     # beginning of line
>                (?P<word>\w+)          # a word
>                \s+                    # some whitespace
>                (?P=word)(?!\w)        # the same word again
>             """
> double_word_re = re.compile(pattern,  re.I | re.X)
>
> Sometimes regex really is the best tool.  It's often the most compact,
> or fastest, or clearest way to express something complicated.
> Fortunately, re.X mode gives you a way to write truly monster regexes
> and still having them not be total line noise.
>
> It's a shame that the Python community has evolved to be so anti-regex
> that most people never consider using them.  While Perl's attitude to
> regex may be "when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks
> like a nail", Python's seems to be, "I've got a great collection of all
> kinds of neat tools, so I'm going to pretend the hammer that's in there
> doesn't exist because I once smashed my thumb with it and it hurt a lot".

HAHAHAHAHAHA Very funny!

This thread is awsome.

Cheers
Karim