Antoine De Groote wrote:
> Hello,
>> Can anybody tell me the reason(s) why regular expressions are not built
> into Python like it is the case with Ruby and I believe Perl? Like for
> example in the following Ruby code
>> line = 'some string'
>> case line
> when /title=(.*)/
> puts "Title is #$1"
> when /track=(.*)/
> puts "Track is #$1"
> when /artist=(.*)/
> puts "Artist is #$1"
> end
>> I'm sure there are good reasons, but I just don't see them.
>> Python Culture says: 'Explicit is better than implicit'. May it be
> related to this?
>> Regards,
> antoine
I notice two issues here. Only one has anything to do with regular
expressions. The other one with 'explicit is better than implicit': the
many implicit passing operations of Rubys case statement. Using
pseudo-Python notation this could be refactored into a more explicit
and not far less concise style:
if line.match( "title=(.*)" ) as m:
print "Title is %s"%m.group(1)
elif line.match( "track=(.*)" ) as m:
print "Track is %s"%m.group(1)
elif line.match( "artist=(.*)" ) as m:
print "Artist is %s"%m.group(1)
Here the result of the test line.match( ) is assigned to the local
variable m if bool(line.match( )) == True. Later m can be used in the
subsequent block. Moreover match becomes a string method. No need for
extra importing re and applying re.compile(). Both can be done in
str.match() if necessary.
Kay
