Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.005 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.99; '*S*': 0.00; 'lawrence': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'terry': 0.09; 'low-level': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'reedy': 0.16; 'subject:Regular': 0.16; 'subject:expression': 0.16; 'string': 0.17; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'unicode': 0.17; 'stick': 0.22; 'subject:problem': 0.22; 'programming': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints- To:1': 0.28; '(and': 0.32; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.32; 'sexual': 0.33; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'self': 0.34; 'faster': 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'but': 0.36; 'bad': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'mark': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'teaching': 0.66; 'lose': 0.71; 'abuse.': 0.84; 'does!': 0.84 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Regular expression problem Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:19:51 +0000 References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-92-18-29-221.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130215 Thunderbird/17.0.3 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130311-0, 11/03/2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 27 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1362997176 news.xs4all.nl 6892 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:38164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:41057 On 11/03/2013 09:28, jmfauth wrote: > On 11 mar, 03:06, Terry Reedy wrote: > >> >> ... >> By teaching 'speed before correctness", this site promotes bad >> programming habits and thinking (and the use of low-level but faster >> languages). >> ... > > > This is exactly what "your" flexible string representation > does! > > And away from technical aspects, you even succeeded to > somehow lose unicode compliance. > > jmf > Please stick to something you know about such as sexual self abuse. -- Cheers. Mark Lawrence