Python e regular expression

Letto oggi sul newsgroup comp.lang.python:

Thank goodness regexs are an “extra” in Python, because it discourages noobs from pulling out the 80 pound sledgehammer of the regex engine to crack the peanut of a test-and-concatenate — Steven D’aprano

Il che mi ricorda un’altra grande perla di saggezza:

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think “I know, I’ll use regular expressions.” Now they have two problems. — Jamie Zawinski

E per concludere, un classico del genere:

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