builtin regular expressions?

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 11:24:56 +0200, Antoine De Groote <antoine at vo.lu> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Can anybody tell me the reason(s) why regular expressions are not built 
> into Python like it is the case with Ruby and I believe Perl?

In a way, there /is/ builtin support -- regexes would be much more painful
to use unless you had the regex-quoted strings. 

r'\s*(\d+),\s*(\d+)\s='
 '\\s*(\\d+),\\s*(\\d+)\\s='

/Jorgen

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