2009/9/17 nathan binkert <n...@binkert.org>: > I've been working on code that works a lot like string.Template and in > the process, I stumbled on re.Scanner. I have two questions. > 1) Is re.Scanner ever going to be official? Can I count on it being > in future versions of python? It's been there for a really long time, > so I assume so, but something that's undocumented seems that it could > be dropped easily.
See http://bugs.python.org/issue5337. > 2) Is there a reason that string.Template doesn't use re.Scanner? My > understanding of re.Scanner is that it is exactly what you want for > something like string.Template. Perhaps because it wasn't documented. :) -- Regards, Benjamin _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
