[Python-Dev] Urgent: regex Perl vs Python (original) (raw)

holger krekel pyth@devel.trillke.net
Wed, 2 Oct 2002 23:14:55 +0200

Christian Tismer wrote:

Christian Tismer wrote: > Hi Friends, > > It is said that with the new re module, Python "has the regular > expressions like Perl". > Can somebody tell me to what extent this is true? > I need to convince s.o. not to use Perl for a larger project, > but I cannot answer the question up to which version the > Python re's are covering all of Perl's?

Please, can somebody give me just a version number? I really need this info, and I'm not intending to start a thread, I sware.

hi chris,

Maybe you could mail the current regex maintainer (IIRC Frederik Lundh).

Or work yourself and dig through google :-)

ciao holger