[socal-piggies] What is your favorite Python stdlib module and why?

[Andrew Kou]

Oh geez...where do I even start...

First, I also have a love hate relationship with re., but I guess that's
more because of regex than re itself. But over time I seen to have gotten
better at identifying what I shouldn't use regex for. Hybrid regex solutions
seems to be the most maintainable in a lot of cases.

itertools, pprint, json, csv, contextlib makes me happy.

urllib etc. is surprisingly useful at random times...

There's just too much good stuff! I can't decide which my favorite is.

- Andrew

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Alex Chang <maverick.chang at gmail.com>wrote:

> regexbuddy has made regex-ing alot quicker for me.  if you dont use
> it, highly recommend checking it out.
>
> On Thursday, June 16, 2011, Daniel Greenfeld <pydanny at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is a tough one. I change my mind on it every day.
> >
> > Today my favorite is JSON because it lets me serialize data for
> > storage or messages so trivially. And unlike Pickle everything in the
> > world can read in a JSON file.
> >
> > Danny
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Mahan
> > <chris.mahan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I find that when I use regular expressions, I end up maintaining the
> code,
> >> cuz nobody else wants to touch it, so I avoid it.
> >>
> >> Christopher Mahan
> >> 818.671.1709
> >> chris.mahan at gmail.com
> >> http://christophermahan.com
> >>
> >> On Jun 16, 2011 5:19 PM, "Grig Gheorghiu" <grig.gheorghiu at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> I use regular expressions a lot in my code, so I have a love/hate
> >>> relationship with the 're' module. It's not a favorite necessarily,
> >>> but other than os and system it's probably the one I use most. This is
> >>> one area of Python (probably the only area) that I wish was as
> >>> polished as Perl's ;-)
> >>>
> >>> Grig
> >>>
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