[BangPypers] Do you think a more declarative RE syntax would make the world a better place ?

[Vishal]

On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsenthil at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Vishal <vsapre80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > # a(b|c)d+e*
> >
> > re1 = """
> >
> > - literal: 'a'
> > - one_of: 'b,c'
> > - one_or_more_of: 'd'
> > - zero_or_more_of: 'e'
> > """
>
> It *could be* useful to new comers, but not very much.
> This will add to the cost of covering it to regex code and will cause
> significant delay in the programs which are using regex. So in big
> apps it may not be of use.
> Have you seen re.VERBOSE flag in the re module? Thats perhaps the
> middle path (tm). :)
>
>
> --
> Senthil
>
>
Thanks for that info. Actually the re.X option fills in for a lot of the
complexity.
I had looked into it before.

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Thanks and best regards,
Vishal