Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Thanks for the explanation, but isn't this a backward incompatible > feature? > I think it should be enabled only when the re.NEW flag is passed. > The idiom [][...] is also quite common, so I think it might break > different programs if regex has a different behavior.
As someone said, I'd rather have a re.COMPAT flag. re.NEW will look silly in a few years. Also, we can have a warning about unescaped brackets during a transitional period. However, it really needs the warning to be enabled by default, IMO. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2636> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
