Sean Reifschneider wrote:
I'm mailing this to python-dev because I'd like feedback on the idea of adding an "re" attribute to strings. I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not yet, but I figure it's worth discussion. The module mentioned here includes a class called "restr()" which allows you to play with "s.re".As some of you may recall, I'm not particularly fond of the recipe: m = re.match(r'whatever(.*)', s) if m: m.group(1) The other morning I came up on the idea of adding an "re" to strings, so you could do things like: if s.re.match(r'whatever(.*)'): print s.re.group(1) or: if (date.re.match(r'(?P<year>\d\d\d\d)-(?P<month>\d\d)' or date.re.match(r'(?P<month>\d\d)-(?P<year>\d\d\d\d)'): print date.re.groupdict('year')
[snip] Why not drop the ".re" part? You would, however, then need a new name for the re split, eg "re_split". Or you could make the string the pattern, eg r'whatever(.*)'.match(s). _______________________________________________ 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
