Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Fri Dec 26 01:58:24 EST 2014

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Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net> writes:

> Any comment on using pyparsing VS regex

A full-blown parser (with ‘pyparsing’) is overkill for this.

Even regular expressions isn't needed.

The built-in text type (‘str’) in Python 3 should have everything you
need; you only need to match prefixes. No need in this task to go beyond
‘str.startswith’, from what I can tell.

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