On 20/09/20 7:45 am, Christopher Barker wrote:
In [4]: from parse import parse In [5]: parse("{x}{y}{z}", a_string) Out[5]: <Result () {'x': '2', 'y': '3', 'z': '4567'}>In [6]: parse("{x:d}{y:d}{z:d}", a_string) Out[6]: <Result () {'x': 2345, 'y': 6, 'z': 7}>So that's interesting -- different level of "greadiness" for strings than integers
Hmmm, that seems really unintuitive. I think a better result would be a parse error -- "I was told to expect three things, but I only found one." I'm wondering whether such patterns should be disallowed on the basis that they're inherently ambiguous. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/LXUZLU3COX3IYNB5NHPSV2DUN2FGDTKL/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
