Handy commandline tool for providing the essential business analytics necessary to determine the outcome of using regular expressions as a potential solution.

addregex.py

import sys
import time

if len(sys.argv) < 2:
    print("You need to tell me how many problems you have for which you are trying to apply regex as a solution")
    print("run script as `python addregex.py <no. of problems>`")
    sys.exit()


problems = int(sys.argv[1])

def whynotregex(problems_sum):
    print("You had %s problem(s) before adding regex into the mix" % (str(problems_sum))) 
    problems_sum += 1
    print("Computing analytics...")
    time.sleep(3)
    print("Now you have %s problems" % (str(problems_sum)))
    time.sleep(1)
    print("While it is possible that a glitch isn't one,")
    time.sleep(1)
    print("I still feel bad for you...")
    time.sleep(2)
    print("...son")

if __name__ == '__main__':
  whynotregex(problems)