21 Oct
2016
21 Oct
'16
8:35 p.m.
On Oct 21, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Gene Wirchenko genew@telus.net wrote:
+1. It's like the UberNerds who want to obfuscate just for the "fun" of it to be UberNerds. I felt similar about RegExp.
Regexes can be great, but I resist the temptation to make long regexes. That gets in write-only code all too fast. Instead, I might use a couple of shorter ones with a bit of glue code.
Complex? Just add comments!
http://www.diveintopython.net/regular_expressions/verbose.html
-- Ed Leafe