On Thu, Dec 07, 2006, Alastair Houghton wrote:
>
> An example where it might be useful:
>
> m = re.match('(?:([0-9]+) ([0-9]+) ([0-9]+) ([0-9]+) (?P<rect>rect)'
> '|([0-9]+) ([0-9]+) ([0-9]+) (?P<circle>circle))',
> lineFromFile)
>
> if m['rect']:
> drawRectangle(m[1:5])
> elif m['circle']:
> drawCircle(m[1:3], m[3])
>
> Is that really so outlandish?
Likely; normally I would expect that drawRectangle would break on string
arguments instead of ints. I think that the amount of usefulness
compared to problems doesn't really make this worth it.
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