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| From | Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. |
| Date | 2012-01-25 15:33 -0500 |
| References | <30949a2a-bfd4-4d22-a56b-22b1c6cdf1e8@m11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.5091.1327523659.27778.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On 1/25/2012 12:16 PM, Rick Johnson wrote: > > (?...) # Base Extension Syntax > All extensions are wrapped in parenthesis and start with a question > mark, but i believe the question mark was a very bad choice, since the I think that syntax came either from Perl or the pcre library used by several open source programs, including several Python versions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcre has some info on this. -- Terry Jan Reedy
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PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 09:16 -0800
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 09:33 -0800
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-25 19:32 +0000
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 18:19 -0500
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 13:17 -0700
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 13:19 -0800
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Duncan Booth <duncan.booth@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-25 21:41 +0000
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 14:26 -0800
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 16:36 -0700
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 16:14 -0800
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-26 01:58 +0000
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 21:24 -0500
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 20:21 -0800
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Evan Driscoll <edriscoll@wisc.edu> - 2012-01-25 23:38 -0600
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-26 05:28 +0000
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-01-25 15:33 -0500
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 18:28 -0500
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 15:44 -0800
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-26 05:28 +0000
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-26 01:54 +0000
Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive. Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-01-25 19:05 -0700
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