[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Giovanni> I'm sure you were talking more generically, but as for > this Giovanni> specific case (which is indeed very common), I > always wondered Giovanni> why re couldn't export wrappers around > bound methods of the Giovanni> last match object, so to allow: > > Giovanni> if re.match(...): > Giovanni> x,y = re.group(1), re.group(2) > Giovanni> elif re.match(..): > Giovanni> ... > > Because then the re module wouldn't be thread safe.
Can't you put the global last-match object into TLS? Giovanni Bajo _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
