Brett Cannon wrote: > This has been argued about before. It has been suggested we actually > ditch the C version since we only want to maintain one version and the > Python version can be used by alternative Python implementations. > > This probably needs to be covered in a PEP that covers a stdlib > reorg/renaming.
If someone does that, I'ld like to suggest removing re.match, because the match/search distinction seems to be one of the things that trips newbies up on a fairly regular basis (and tripped me up just a few weeks ago after years of using Python), and re.match( pat ) is equivalent to: re.search( "^" + pat ) (or could hopefully be made equivalent). Later, Blake. _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
