[coldtea]

>There are regex libraries for C

Which everybody here knows and nobody doubted. So, a big duh!

What the parent means is with Python you don't need to go and install one, adjust your makefiles, etc. Regex are right there in the standard library, and things that are not are immediately usable in just a "pip install" away.

[StavrosK]

Exactly. The biggest problem I have is just finding appropriate libraries. With PyPI I know where they are, how to get them and which one is popular. With C, I'm completely lost. I use PlatformIO's manager, but it's limited to embedded libraries, so I just don't know where to find things at all.

[Manishearth]

Its not just finding the libraries, its also marrying the makefiles.

[anthk]

With Linux that's trivial to know.

[EpicEng]

...google

[EpicEng]

Sure, and to get that Python requires a big runtime to be present wherever it goes. Trade-off.

[snakeanus]

apt-get install Done!

Do people actually use pip when you can just use the package manager of your distro?