On 13/06/18 12:06, Ken Hilton wrote:
Hi all,
Regexes are really useful in many places, and to me it's sad to see the
builtin "re" module having to resort to requiring a source string as an
argument. It would be much more elegant to simply do "s.search(pattern)"
than "re.search(pattern, s)".
I suggest building all regex operations into the str class itself, as well
as a new syntax for regular expressions.
[snip]
Thoughts?
My first, most obvious thought is that Python is not Perl, and does not
encourage people to reach for regular expressions at every opportunity.
That said, I don't see how having a special delimiter syntax for
something that could just as well be a string is a help.
--
Rhodri James *-* Kynesim Ltd
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