I've just noticed an oddity of the re module while looking at the
sources. I'll illustrate it below:
>>> import re
>>> p = re.compile("foo")
>>> help(p.match)
Help on built-in function match:
match(...)
match(string[, pos[, endpos]]) --> match object or None.
Matches zero or more characters at the beginning of the string
>>> p.match(string="foo")
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<pyshell#8>", line 1, in <module>
p.match(string="foo")
TypeError: Required argument 'pattern' (pos 1) not found
>>>
The name of the first argument should be "string", yet it's "pattern".
Does anyone know if it's anything other than a mistake? Should it be
fixed in the next version of the re module, or are we just stuck with it
(and should just change the docstring to match)?
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