> Python has stolen everything it could from Perl It hasn't. In python, regex's are an effing library. In perl they're built into the language and can be sum

> Python has stolen everything it could from Perl It hasn't. In python, regex's are an effing library. In perl they're built into the language and can be summoned in a much more concise and efficient (metric:code clarity) way than python will ever manage as long as the bloody 'import re' will be required.