Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

[Carl Banks]

On Friday, May 27, 2011 6:47:21 AM UTC-7, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <948l8n... at mid.individual.net>,
>  Gregory Ewing <greg.... at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> > John Bokma wrote:
> > 
> > > A Perl programmer will call this line noise:
> > > 
> > > double_word_re = re.compile(r"\b(?P<word>\w+)\s+(?P=word)(?!\w)",
> > >                             re.IGNORECASE)
> 
> One of the truly awesome things about the Python re library is that it 
> lets you write complex regexes like this:
> 
> pattern = r"""\b                     # beginning of line
>               (?P<word>\w+)          # a word
>               \s+                    # some whitespace
>               (?P=word)(?!\w)        # the same word again
>            """
> double_word_re = re.compile(pattern,  re.I | re.X)

Perl has the X flag as well, in fact I'm pretty sure Perl originated it.  Just saying.


Carl Banks