On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:05:30 +0000, Steve Holden wrote: > Geoff Hill wrote: >> What's the way to go about learning Python's regular expressions? I feel >> like such an idiot - being so strong in a programming language but knowing >> nothing about RE. >> >> > In fact that's a pretty smart stance.
That's a little harsh -- regexes have their place, together with pointer arithmetic, bit manipulations, reverse polish notation and goto. The problem is when people use them inappropriately e.g. using a regex when a simple string.find will do. > A quote attributed variously to > Tim Peters and Jamie Zawinski says "Some people, when confronted with a > problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions.' Now they have two > problems." I believe that is correctly attributed to Jamie Zawinski. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list