On 3 Jan 2006 02:20:52 -0800, Sam Pointon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would this particular inconsistency be candidate for change in Py3k? > Seems to me the pos and endpos arguments are redundant with slicing,
Being able to specify the start and end indices for a search is important when working with very large strings (multimegabyte) -- where slicing would create a copy, specifying pos and endpos allows for memory-efficient searching in limited areas of a string. > and the re.match function would benefit from having the same arguments > as pattern.match. Not at all; the flags need to be specified when the regex is compiled, as they affect the compiled representation (finite state automaton I expect) of the regex. If the flags were given in pattern.match(), then there'd be no performance benefit gained from precompiling the regex. Andrew -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
