Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> I know what the Zen says about special cases, but in this case the rules >> were apparently broken with impunity. > > Well, the proposal was to interpret m[i] as m.group(i), for all values > of i. I can't see anything confusing with that.
it can quickly become rather confusing if you also interpret m[:] as m.groups(), not to mention if you add len() and arbitrary slicing to the mix. what about m[] and m[i,j,k], btw? </F> _______________________________________________ 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