[Tutor] please return flys in ointment

[ALAN GAULD]

>Oddly, I was just looking at pyparsing, and it mentioned it's good for Python 2.3 
>and above. But that left me thinking "Do they mean version 3 and above?" 
>since a lot is not ready for version 3. Since we know a lot has changed since 2.3 and especially since 2.3 I'd take it with 
a pinch of salt and consider it v2 safe.

But if it says 2.7 and above it should be v3 safge too since v2.7 allows pretty good 
portability between 2 and 3.

But thats just me...

BTW, I understand the basics of regexes, but had some problems and looked 
>into pyparsing. Has anyone used that and does it seem better than regexes, 
>or easier on the noggin?When searching for text use simple string searches where possible.
If not possible use regexes where the input and/or search string are unstructured.
If its structured use a parser for preference. (HTML, XML or pyparser etc for 
proprietary type stuff)

There are a few things where regexes are the best tool, but for anything 
non-trivial (relatively speaking!) there is usually a better way... IMHO...

Alan g.
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