[Python-Dev] Re: Missing arguments in RE functions (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum gvanrossum at gmail.com
Sat Sep 11 02:46:20 CEST 2004

+1. Consistency makes the API conceptually simpler, even if the absolute number of parameters is larger.

And how is it more consistent that in one form you have to write

re.compile(r"[a-z]+", re.I).search(line)

while in the other form you have to write

re.search(r"[a-z]+", line, re.I)

???

This parameter ordering issue alone makes me cringe at adding the flags to the functions.

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