On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 03:04:54PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:15:41AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote: > > Christoph Haas <haas@debian.org> writes: > > > > > So before diving into into regular expressions any further (I have no > > > practical experience with lookahead patterns for example) I would like > > > to know if anyone else has worked on this. Perhaps even some Debian tool > > > does this parsing. I need an implementation in Python but if someone > > > shows me Perl code of a non-regexp algorithm I'd be happy, too. > > > > Use apt_pkg.UpstreamVersion(). Is the easier way to do that. > > Wow, this is great. Just why did I implement half of that myself > already? :) I guess I was a bit too quick to throw away my regexp approach. apt_pkg is pretty nice just that it does not yet support Python 2.4 on Sarge, the documentation is practically non-existing and an attempt to read a control file (not sure if that's even possible) in ipython gave me a segmentation fault. Even the documentation in /usr/share/doc/libapt-pkg-doc didn't help me much. May be my ignorance of course. Unless I understand what apt_pkg really is useful for I think I'll stick to regular expressions. :( Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%-- 1,48 All
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