New submission from Serhiy Storchaka: Documented (in docstring and in ReST documentation) signatures of the match, search and (since 3.4) fullmatch methods of regex pattern object are:
match(string[, pos[, endpos]]) search(string[, pos[, endpos]]) fullmatch(string[, pos[, endpos]]) However in implementation the first keyword argument by mistake named "pattern". This looks as nonsense. The pattern is object itself, and first argument is a string. First arguments in other methods (split, findall, etc) named "string", and module-level functions have both "pattern" and "string" parameters: match(pattern, string, flags=0) search(pattern, string, flags=0) I think we should fix this mistake. The "pattern" name is obviously wrong and is not match the documentation. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 208311 nosy: ezio.melotti, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Wrong keyword parameter name in regex pattern methods type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue20283> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
