Raymond wrote: > My other gripe is with the kludgy object-oriented regex functions. > Couldn't these be better implemented in-line? Why should I, as a coder, > have to 're.compile()' when all the reference languages do this at compile > time, from a much more straightforward and easy to read in-line > function...
Because compile time doesn't do
pattern = raw_input ("Pattern, please: ")
saved_pattern = re.compile (pattern)
Mel.
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