Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
How nasty. I agree that this is a code bug. Unfortunately in this case, the C
code does keyword matching of arguments and 'corrects' the doc for anyone who
tries 'string='.
>>> pat.search(string='xabc', pos=1)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#6>", line 1, in <module>
pat.search(string='xabc', pos=1)
TypeError: Required argument 'pattern' (pos 1) not found
>>> pat.search(pattern='xabc', pos=1)
<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(1, 4), match='abc'>
I think we should only change this in 3.4 (and should do so in 3.4).
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nosy: +terry.reedy
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