grimace: a fluent regular expression generator in Python
Gregory Ewing
greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jul 17 19:51:34 EDT 2013
Ben Last wrote:
> north_american_number_re = (RE().start
> .literal('(').followed_by.__exactly(3).digits.then.__literal(')')
> .then.one.literal("-").then.__exactly(3).digits
> .then.one.dash.followed_by.__exactly(4).digits.then.end
> .as_string())
Is 'dash' the same as 'literal("-")'?
Is there any difference between 'then' and 'followed_by'?
Why do some things have __ in front of them? Is there a
difference between 'literal' and '__literal'?
--
Greg
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