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On 17/03/2016 16:36, Charles T. Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:21:51 -0700, Ethan Furman wrote:
>
>>> well, I don't want to forgo REs in order to have python's numbers be better....
>>
>> The issue is not avoiding REs, but using Python's strengths and idioms.
>>    Write the code in Python's style, get the same results, then compare
>> the times.
>
>
> Yes, your point was to forge REs despite that they are useful.
> I could have thought the search would have been better as:
>
>      'release[-.:][Rr]eq'
>
> or something else ... you're in a "defend python at all costs!" mode.
>

I believe it is more along the lines of "In Rome, do as the Romans".

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence