Why python is not my favorite language

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Wednesday, December 14. 2005

Why python is not my favorite language

# replace *text* by '''text'''.
p = re.compile('*([^*]+)*',re.MULTILINE)
text = p.sub(r"""'''\1'''""",text)

So many quotes, just awful, and so absolutely un-intuitive.

Posted by Andreas Krennmair at 10:51 | Comment (1) | Trackback (1)

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Well, you have to keep in mind that this isn't really because of python but instead python implementation with regex.. That said I have yet to find any reasonbly "poetic like" regex implementaion of regular expressions in any language.. The only one that comes close is perl but at the same time, perl it self is extremly "ugly" to code

#1 japon (Homepage) on 2008-12-21 18:22 (Reply)

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