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From: Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:24:14 -0500
Subject: Re: PyWart: Python regular expression syntax is not intuitive.
To: Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Rick Johnson
<rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> wrote:
> It is germane in the fact that i believe PyParsing, re, and my new
> regex module can co-exist in harmony.

If all you're going to change is the parser, maybe it'd be easier to
get things to coexist if parsers were pluggable in the re module.

It's more generally useful, too. Would let re gain a PyParsing/SNOBOL
like expression "syntax", for example. Or a regular grammar syntax.
Neat for experimentation.

-- Devin