Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Would there be any reason (I do not know) to replace that with an > > re.ASCII flag to have the reverse effect (assuming there is not now)? > > I'd be inclined to have it implied by the type of the argument - a str > argument implies re.UNICODE is set, a bytes or bytearray argument > implies it isn't. Users could still set it explicitly to have it apply > in the latter case.
Setting a hypothetical re.ASCII flag with a str pattern can have a sense, but setting re.UNICODE with a bytes pattern doesn't have any (assuming we forbid matching of bytes patterns with str objects and vice-versa). _______________________________________________ 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
