sergiosantos.info - Empowering regular expressions Comments tag:sergiosantos.info,2009:/2008/7/empowering-regular-expressions/comments Mephisto Noh-Varr 2008-07-03T23:39:49Z Sérgio Santos tag:sergiosantos.info,2008-07-03:1495:1498 2008-07-03T23:39:49Z 2008-07-03T23:39:49Z Comment on 'Empowering regular expressions' by Sérgio Santos The tester seems really nice, maybe I'll switch.<br /><br /> About the verbose regular expressions in Python, that's actually a common feature in all regexp implementations. For most, adding the end option 'x' enables multi-line support and embedded comments using #. And yes, when your expression is getting a little out of hand, it sure helps to give some pointers through it... Marco Louro tag:sergiosantos.info,2008-07-03:1495:1497 2008-07-03T23:04:59Z 2008-07-03T23:04:59Z Comment on 'Empowering regular expressions' by Marco Louro Nice post. For testing I use http://gskinner.com/RegExr/. It's pretty good, and it also has a desktop version. As for the "readable" version, I think verbose regular expressions in Python seem much closer to that goal, both in readability and maintainability.