Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Michael Urman wrote: > >> The idea that slicing a match object should produce a match object >> sounds like a foolish consistency to me. > > well, the idea that adding m[x] as a convenience alias for m.group(x) > automatically turns m into a list-style sequence that also has to > support full slicing sounds like an utterly foolish consistency to me.
Maybe instead of considering a match object to be a sequence, a match object should be considered a map? After all, we do have named, as well as numbered, groups...? -- Talin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
