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Fri Nov 7 17:09:01 EST 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-November/040102.html

On Fri, Nov 07, 2003, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Thomas Heller <theller at python.net> writes:
>> 
>> But there are probably more useful combinations like
>> 
>>     string.letters + string.digits + "_"
> 
> I think the typical application of this should use regular expressions
> instead.

Ick:

'Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use
regular expressions."  Now they have two problems.'  --Jamie Zawinski,
comp.emacs.xemacs, 8/1997
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