On Sat, 04 Jun 2011 03:24:50 +0100, MRAB wrote:
> [snip] > Some regex implementations support scoped case sensitivity. :-) Yes, you should link to your regex library :) Have you considered the suggested Perl 6 syntax? Much of it looks good to me. > I have at times thought that it would be useful if .startswith offered > the option of case insensitivity and there were also str.equal which > offered it. I agree. I wish string methods in general would support a case_sensitive flag. I think that's a common enough task to count as a exception to the rule "don't include function boolean arguments that merely swap between two different actions". -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
