On Sat, Jul 1, 2023 at 10:24 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jul 2023 at 15:11, Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > The OP of this thread is not alone -- folks want an authoritative source > -- they may not get that > > An authoritative source is absolutely perfect for someone who wants > less choices. "Just give me the one and only option and promise me > that it's perfect!" I don't think that it -- how about "Just give a few options that aren't worthless" would really help. > As one example, let's try > looking for a regular expression parser. The standard library has one > already, but PyPI has more. There's "regex", but also 500 pages of > other hits for the search "regular expression" I think you've made my point -- who wants to wade through 500 packages? How many of those packages are reasonably well tested and maintained? I'll bet a good fraction of those are essentially worthless. Getting 50 hits would be a lot more manageable -- it doesn't have to be one. Only re (the one in the stdlib)? What if you want PCREs - > there's no package called "pcre" but there's "pcre2", "python-pcre", > and probably others. > And are those three (and others?) actually useful maintained packages? Or someone's abandoned experiment? Who the heck knows without digging into each one? NOTE: I did a (very) quick google to see if someone had written a blog about PCREs in Python that might provide some guidance -- no luck. I like your decentralized blog idea, but I'm not sure how to get people to write them :-) -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython
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