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

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at verizon.net
Wed Sep 8 01:50:44 CEST 2004


> The first missing feature is the "flags" argument in the findall and > finditer functions. . . . > The second missing feature is the ability to specify start and end > indices when doing matches and searches.

+1 I've need both of these more than once. Are you up to crafting the code?

Noam has posted a patch: www.python.org/sf/1024041

After adding the unittests, does anyone see any reason that this should not be in Py2.4?

Raymond Hettinger



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