Guido van Rossum writes: > I'm not sure I understand you. :-(
My apologies. This: > > Or is this something deeper, that a group *is* a new object in > > principle? > > No, I just think of it as returning "a string" and I think it's most > useful if that is always an immutable object, even if the target > string is some other bytes buffer. is exactly the kind of answer I was looking for. _______________________________________________ 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
