Hello fellas, I am trying to create a python function that can take an plain english description of a regular expression and return the regular expression to the caller.
Currently I am thinking of the description in YAML format. So, we can store the description as a raw string variable, which is passed on to this another function and output of that function is then passed to the 're' module. Following is a rather simplistic example: # a(b|c)d+e* re1 = """ - literal: 'a' - one_of: 'b,c' - one_or_more_of: 'd' - zero_or_more_of: 'e' """ myre = re.compile(getRegex(re1)) myre.search(...) etc. Does anyone think something of this sort would be of wider use? Do you know already existing packages that can do it? What are the limitations that you see to this approach? Does anyone think, having the declarative string in code, would make it more maintainable? _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
