On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 12:34 AM Serhiy Storchaka <storch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> `next(re.finditer(...), None)` is a weird way of writing `re.search(...)`. > > `next(re.finditer(...), defaults)` is the same as `re.search(...) or > defaults`. > Not so fast. re.search() returns a Match object, while re.finditer() and re.findall() return strings. For people who are just interested in strings, the Match object is just a distraction. I think I am +1 on adding re.findfirst() as proposed by the OP. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) *Pronouns: he/him **(why is my pronoun here?)* <http://feministing.com/2015/02/03/how-using-they-as-a-singular-pronoun-can-change-the-world/>
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