Python 1.6 alpha 1 released

[Michael Hudson]

breiter at usf.Uni-Osnabrueck.DE (Bernhard Reiter) writes:

> True the whole discussion is kind of pointless.
> Nontheless it is not an easy taks to just rewrite your code with
> a simple regular expression replacement. ;-) (And that was my point.)

Downright impossible (the old "can't match nested parens" would rear
it's head, would it not?).  I'd have thought it possible with a real
parser, though.

i-know-lets-flog-this-thread-a-bit-more-ly y'rs
Michael

-- 
well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier
to program in C is that you can't easily express complex  problems
in C, so you don't.                 -- Erik Naggum, comp.lang.lisp