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Re: Pythonic way to combine regular expressions?

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On 9/26/2026 6:04 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> wrote or quoted:
>> We also do not want to introduce /any/ extra identifiers, nor paren-
>> thesis.
> 
>    Here's without names and parens:
> 
> ^[+-]?[0-9]+$|^[+-]?[0-9]+\.[0-9]+[eE][+-]?[0-9]+$|^[+-]?[0-9]+\.[0-9]+$|^[+-]?\.[0-9]+[eE][+-]?[0-9]+$|^[+-]?\.[0-9]+$|^[+-]?[0-9]+\.[eE][+-]?[0-9]+$|^[+-]?[0-9]+\.$|^[+-]?[0-9]+[eE][+-]?[0-9]+$
> 
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python,alt.folklore.computers
> Followup-To: comp.lang.python

Thank you.  I'm sure Kent Beck of /eXtreme Programming/ would be proud
of this regular expression if he bothered to read comp.lang.python.

It puts the write-only programming language of Perl to shame.  Do you
think he'd be well received on Pern?  We don't have alt.fantasy.anne-
mccaffrey, so I've only included alt.fantasy for further commentary on
Pernian Perl programming perennial illegibility.
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Pythonic way to combine regular expressions? Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-26 02:54 +0800
  Re: Pythonic way to combine regular expressions? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-09-25 19:08 +0000
    Re: Pythonic way to combine regular expressions? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-09-25 19:19 +0000
  Re: Pythonic way to combine regular expressions? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-09-26 10:04 +0000
    Re: Pythonic way to combine regular expressions? Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> - 2026-09-26 20:09 +0800
      Re: Pythonic way to combine regular expressions? ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) - 2026-09-26 12:22 +0000

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