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

Noam Raphael noamr at myrealbox.com
Sat Sep 11 23:19:50 CEST 2004

Ok, so I understand that Guido doesn't want to extend the functions' API to have the full functionality. Fine. However, I've suggested three things that I think should be done in that case, and nobody objected. Here they are:

  1. Add a prominent note in the module contents page or in the module's main page, stating that some functionality can only be acheived by using compiled REs.
  2. Document the optional parameters which let you specify the start and end pos in the findall and finditer methods of a compiled RE object.
  3. Add the optional parameter "flags" to the findall and finditer functions. Then, the four functions match, search, findall and finditer would have the same interface: function(pattern, string[, flags]).

Does anyone have any objections?

Noam

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