29 Mar
2022
29 Mar
'22
9:43 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 4:08 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
I have no strong opinion on whether this simple function should be built into the string class,
I do -- this is not sufficiently general to be a string method.
but I do have a strong opinion about re-writing it into a slower, more fragile, harder to understand, less user-friendly regex.
I do agree there. I also agree with Chris A's suggestion: *some* scanner / parser that could be used for this and many other things that's significantly more straightforward that regex's. -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD (Chris) Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython