On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 16:15:12 -0000 "Brian Coleman" <brianfcole...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Furthermore, Python has a regular expression module which implements it's own > DSL for the purpose of matching string patterns. Regular expressions, in a > similar way to pattern matching, > allow string patterns to be expressed in a concise and declarative manner.
Uh, without regular expressions, a lot of functions would be massively more complicated and annoying to write. However, your example shows that pattern matching barely makes common code shorter (admittedly, on this _one_ example, but that's the one you chose ;-)). While I agree that regular expressions are far less Pythonic than the proposed variant of pattern matching, they also have a tremendously better cost/benefit ratio, IMHO. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/45MP5EZ4D4XIJAQR2WPXLXNMWOMAR3QT/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
