ignore case only for a part of the regex?
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Sun Dec 30 19:29:17 EST 2012
On 30Dec2012 12:32, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
| In article <mailman.1467.1356885520.29569.python-list at python.org>,
| Vlastimil Brom <vlastimil.brom at gmail.com> wrote:
| > you may check the new regex implementation for python
| > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex
[...]
| I'm not sure I like the fuzzy matching stuff. On the one hand, it can
| be useful. On the other hand, people already complain about how
| difficult it can be to read regexes. Once we add things like
| {i<=1,d<=1,s<=1,2i+2d+1s<=4} in the mix, it's going to be total line
| noise.
One might argue that people are not obliged to use the fuzzy matching
syntax (or any other part, really). It should be a matter of taste.
Of course, some people have bad taste:-)
However if you need fuzzy matching, it is very handy if there's a library to
hand that offers it.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
Yes, sometimes Perl looks like line-noise to the uninitiated, but to the
seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line-noise with a mission
in life. - The Llama Book
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