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Re: regex multiple patterns in order

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On 2014-01-20, Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:16 AM, Mark Lawrence
> <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 20/01/2014 16:04, Neil Cerutti wrote:
>>> I use regular expressions regularly, for example, when
>>> editing text with gvim. But when I want to use them in Python
>>> I have to contend with the re module. I've never become
>>> comfortable with it.
>>
>> You don't have to, there's always the "new" regex module
>> that's been on pypi for years.  Or are you saying that you'd
>> like to use regex but other influences that are outside of
>> your sphere of control prevent you from doing so?
>
> I don't see any way in which someone uncomfortable with the re
> module would magically find themselves perfectly at home with
> the regex module. The regex module is the re module with some
> extra features (and complexity), is it not?

It's a negative feedback loop. I'd have to use it more often than
I do to get comfortable. There's no way a library, even a really
good one, can compete with built-in syntax support. The BDFL must
have wanted it to be this way.

-- 
Neil Cerutti

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Re: regex multiple patterns in order Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-01-20 22:18 +1100
  Re: regex multiple patterns in order Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-20 09:52 -0500
    Re: regex multiple patterns in order Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-01-20 16:04 +0000
    Re: regex multiple patterns in order Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-20 16:16 +0000
    Re: regex multiple patterns in order Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 08:40 -0800
      Re: regex multiple patterns in order Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-20 09:06 -0800
        Re: regex multiple patterns in order Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-20 17:30 +0000
    Re: regex multiple patterns in order Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-01-20 17:09 +0000
    Re: regex multiple patterns in order Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-20 17:33 +0000

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