On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Giles Constant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > unsure if this is the right place to voice my thoughts on such a thing, > but given the idealism of python (particularly as an anti-thesis to much of > the ideas of perl), after trying to fix a broken perl script late at > night, It > occurred to me that regular expressions are somewhat un-pythonic. I actually > find the python 're' module, although more versatile than regular expressions > in perl, something that I always have to refer to the manual for, in spite of > the number of times I've used it. In other words, I'm tempted to stretch our > beloved term "unpythonic" to regular expressions. This is rare for a small > python module.
Try the comp.lang.python or python-ideas mailing list. This list is more devoted to the current development of Python than new ideas. -- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson "There's no place like 127.0.0.1." _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
