Talin wrote: > Maybe instead of considering a match object to be a sequence, a match > object should be considered a map?
sure, except for one small thing. from earlier in this thread: > Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > >> I'd say, don't pretend m is a sequence. Pretend it's a mapping. >> Then the conceptual issues go away. to which I replied: > almost; that would mean returning KeyError instead of IndexError for > groups that don't exist, which means that the common pattern > > a, b, c = m.groups() > > cannot be rewritten as > > _, a, b, c = m > > which would, perhaps, be a bit unfortunate. </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
