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

Skip Montanaro skip at pobox.com
Fri Sep 10 15:57:12 CEST 2004 

Raymond> I'm down to +0 on the request.  Keeping the API stable is also
Raymond> important.  And, Fred's effort to separate basic from advanced
Raymond> seems reasonable.

Adding my two cents, I'm -1 on the idea. I view re.match() and friends as convenience functions. There's no reason to provide all the functionality of the slightly lower-level re.compile(). If we were to do that, I'd propose (facetiously) that we deprecate re.compile() as well.

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