Poul-Henning Kamp added the comment: I have tried hard, but have utterly failed to figure out why you have chosen the semantics for ^ you mention, tried to come up with a plausible use case, and I have utterly failed.
I find it distinctly counter intuitive. I think the Principle of Least Astonishment compliant definition of ^ and $ would be that they match the start and end of the string offered for matching, ie: taking start+end into account. The real use-case behind this is searching through a mmap'ed database file, for a particular regexp in a particular field of the records, with the minimum amount of copying. The semantics you mention, makes ^ and $ useless in this, and as far as I can tell, any other scenario involving start+end arguments. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16870> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
