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• You are an idiot (Score:1)

  by Aristotle (5147)

  Just look at it:

  msg = ' spacey string ';
  msg.replace(r'^\s+', '');
  msg.replace(r'\s+$', '');

  That’s clearly orders of magnitude easier to read than the Perl version.
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by Aristotle (5147)

    Oh wait, it has to be this:

    msg = ' spacey string ';
    msg = msg.replace(r'^\s+', '');
    msg = msg.replace(r'\s+$', '');

    Or possibly chain the methods.

    msg = ' spacey string ';
    msg = msg.replace(r'^\s+', '').replace(r'\s+$', '');

    Perl can’t hold a candle to any of that.
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by stvn_skuo (5628)

      Perl can’t hold a candle to any of that.

      
      But perl6 might...
      http://xrl.us/ftqq [xrl.us]
      http://xrl.us/5obh [xrl.us]
      
      In Python that can be written as:
      msg = msg.strip()
      • Re: (Score:1)

        by Aristotle (5147)

        I expected that. Of course, until I read the documentation, I don’t actually have any idea about what strip does.
        • Re:You are an idiot (Score:1)

          by sigzero (5768) on 2007.09.06 13:42 (#57545) Journal

          The Python version removes spaces from both sides of the text. Just create that in a sub{} in Perl and be done with it. : )

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          • Re: (Score:1)

            by Aristotle (5147)

            I know. I’m saying that if I see msg.strip() in a random piece of Python code, and I’ve never seen the documentation of strip, then I don’t know what it does, any more than I know what the Perl code does if I’ve never read the documentation.
            • Re: (Score:1)

              by chromatic (983)

              You're absolutely right. I wish more people realized that.