In article <7p2juvfu8...@mid.individual.net>, Gregory Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote: >MRAB wrote: >> >> In simple cases you might be replacing with the same string every time, >> but other cases you might want the replacement to contain substrings >> captured by the regex. > >But you can give it a function that has access to the match object and >can produce whatever replacement string it wants.
Assuming I remember correctly, the function capability came after the replacement capability. I think that breaking replacement would be a Bad Idea. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
