Making regular expressions more friendly

[Magnus L. Hetland]

Ian Clarke <I.Clarke at strs.co.uk> writes:

> > check out ping's rxb.py module:
> > 
> >     http://www.lfw.org/python/
> 
> This module is excellent.  If I had the power to do it, I would
> encourage use of this in preference to the more conventional way of
> writing regexps.  Just as few people would condone writing C code with
> no whitespace formatting, I will now consider using the built-in method
> bad programming practice, and would encourage others to do the same.
> 

Well - I still don't like the non-standard welcome() and banish()...
And it doesn't cover all of the functionality of the re module...
Perhaps a revised version could be made.


> Ian.

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