Max M maxm at mxm.dk
Sun Oct 1 12:09:58 EDT 2006

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Jorgen Grahn skrev:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:01:57 +0100, Thorsten Kampe <thorsten at thorstenkampe.de> wrote:

>> And the simple reason why Regular Expressions are not a part of the 
>> core Python language is that Regular Expressions are overrated.
> 
> It seems to me they are currently /underrated/ in the Python community. Or,
> I suspect, everybody disrespects them in public but secretly use them when
> they're hacking ;-)


When I used to program in Perl I used regex' for lots of stuff. In 
python I probably use them once every half year. I sinply do not need them.


Max M

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