[Python-ideas] What about regexp string litterals : re".*" ?

[Ryan Gonzalez]

I feel like that borders on a bit too wordy...

Personally, I'd like to see something like Felix's regular definitions:


http://felix-lang.org/share/src/web/tut/regexp_01.fdoc#Regular_definitions._h


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On Mar 29, 2017 3:30 PM, "Abe Dillon" <abedillon at gmail.com> wrote:

My 2 cents is that regular expressions are pretty un-pythonic because of
their horrible readability. I would much rather see Python adopt something
like Verbal Expressions ( https://github.com/VerbalExpressions/
PythonVerbalExpressions ) into the standard library than add special syntax
support for normal REs.

On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 3:31 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28 March 2017 at 08:54, Simon D. <simon at acoeuro.com> wrote:
> > I believe that the u"" notation in Python 2.7 is defined by while
> > importing the unicode_litterals module.
>
> That's not true. The u"..." syntax is part of the language. from
> future import unicode_literals is something completely different.
>
> > Each regexp lib could provide its instanciation of regexp litteral
> > notation.
>
> The Python language has no way of doing that - user (or library)
> defined literals are not possible.
>
> > And if only the default one does, it would still be won for the
> > beginers, and the majority of persons using the stdlib.
>
> How? You've yet to prove that having a regex literal form is an
> improvement over re.compile(r'put your regex here'). You've asserted
> it, but that's a matter of opinion. We'd need evidence of real-life
> code that was clearly improved by the existence of your proposed
> construct.
>
> Paul
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