On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 08:33:40 -0700, Michael Torrie wrote: > You can use escape characters in regular expression on any platform > Python runs on. Python has a whole host of features to deal with the > directory separator differences on Windows vs everybody else.
I am probably slightly biased. I am an old Unix hack who has learned Perl4 in the early 90's and was using it until 2019 when I was told that Perl is not an approved language in the company and that I have to learn Python. So I did. I was a VAX/VMS system admin and instructor from 1987 - 1996. After 1993 I was working for a SGI distributor, using Irix. I have worked with HP-UX, AIX, AT&T Unix, Wyse Unix, SCO Unix and, eventually, Linux, among other things. I might be slightly biased against Windows. -- Mladen Gogala Database Consultant https://dbwhisperer.wordpress.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list