Aahz wrote:

So adding SNOBOL patterns to another library would be a wonderful gift to the Python community...

I wrote a module for Snobol-style pattern matching a while back, but didn't get around to releasing it. I've just put it on my web page: http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Snobol.tar.gz There's no manual yet, but there's a fairly complete set of docstrings and some test cases to figure it out from. -- Greg