http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/module-re.html
http://python.org/doc/2.4.1/lib/node114.html
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The module defines several functions, constants, and an exception. Some
of the functions are simplified versions of the full featured methods
for compiled regular expressions. Most non-trivial applications always
use the compiled form
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What does a programer who wants to use regex gets out from this piece
of motherfucking irrevalent drivel?
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compile(
pattern[, flags])
Compile a regular expression pattern into a regular expression object,
which can be used for matching using its match() and search() methods,
described below.
The expression's behaviour can be modified by specifying a flags
value. Values can be any of the following variables, combined using
bitwise OR (the | operator).
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What exactly is it fucking saying?
I wanted to use regex to find & replace on text. I've read in a file.
Trying to reading this fucking doc is a pain in the ass. What are these
"flags"? Do i do
re.compile(r'my pat','M') or
re.compile(r'my pat',M)
or perhaps
re.compile(r'my pat',re.M)
The M isn't a fucking variable. Why does the doc incompetently use that
term?
And what the fuck is it unclearly meant by "OR" operator with the
mother fucking bitwise jargon?
All a person reading regex really wanted is to see how to use a string
pattern and replace it with another. The fucking doc cannot be possibly
fucking worsely written.
Fuck the mother fucking coders in the IT industry.
So, is
re.compile(r'my pat','M')
re.compile(r'my pat','MULTILINE ')
equivalent?
and, by that fucking bitwise shit is it meant to say like
re.compile(r'my pat','M'|'U')
?
why cannot this piece of shit writing give a single example of usage?
and motherfucking confusedly organized, with fucking variable terms the
writer don't fucking understand, and meanwhile always trying to sound
big asshole and don't stop at masturbation by mention a regex book and
not hesitate to mention another language Perl. Fucking morons.
for a exposition of IT's fucking stupid docs and their fuckhead coders,
see:
http://xahlee.org/Periodic_dosage_di...ami_cukta.html
a cleaned up account of this post will be appended to the above
exposition.
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One final piece of advice here to sober up the fuckheads who are
currently offended and defiant: you want to ask yourself this question:
Can a seasoned programer, who is expert at least 2 languages, who is
also a expert at Perl and knew regex well, and who has also read the
official Python tutorial and has written at least 10 simple python
programs over a span of a month, can such a person, who have not yet
used regex in Python but now wants to use regex in Python and have just
read the doc, must he, resort to many trial and error to see exactly
what the doc is talking about?
But, can this doc be (re-)written effectively and easily so that any
programers needn't do trial'n'error post-reading?
The answer to the questions are resounding yeses, you fucking asses.
paypal me a hundred dollars and i'll rewrite the whole re doc in a few
hours.
Fuck you the standard IT morons. Excuse me for i didn't have time to
write a more coherent and detailed analysis of the stupidities of the
re doc.
Xah
xa*@xahlee.org
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