-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 3, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> Ben Wing schrieb: >> this one is fairly simple. if `m' is a match object, i'd like to be >> able to write m[1] instead of m.group(1). (similarly, m[:] should >> return >> the same as list(m.groups()).) this would remove some of the >> verbosity >> of regexp code, with probably a net gain in readability; certainly >> no loss. > > Please post a patch to sf.net/projects/python (or its successor). > > Several issues need to be taken into account: > - documentation and test cases must be updated to integrate the new > API > - for slicing, you need to consider not only omitted indices, but also > "true" slices (e.g. m[1:5]) > - how should you deal with negative indices? > - should len(m) be supported? what about m['named_group_1'] etc? - -Barry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iQCVAwUBRXL2LnEjvBPtnXfVAQILTwP/SRfvOXXhUXIBK52ByqwuhCwF+K/HfEYu 0+j/L3WQXFE4sZ1CHT6TaMT/K6tbhE7zuGamKmk1+CtSPQAKluwJ8d2/y6Ubp4KE S24sP8NOzKgDg/aTn5zFS/Up7HDfhMIWGCLbg5rY+/Bl48skEkqeo4w07XKwJzky CvxsrJb4wQY= =OPjI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
