[Python-Dev] Misc re.match() complaint (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Tue Jul 16 07:59:11 CEST 2013

Guido van Rossum writes:

I'm not sure I understand you. :-(

My apologies. This:

Or is this something deeper, that a group is a new object in principle?

No, I just think of it as returning "a string" and I think it's most useful if that is always an immutable object, even if the target string is some other bytes buffer.

is exactly the kind of answer I was looking for.

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