On 16 July 2013 14:53, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Hm. I'd still like to change this, but I understand it's debatable... > Is the group() method written in C or Python? If it's in C it should > be simple enough to let it just do a little bit of pointer math and > construct a bytes object from the given area of memory -- after all, > it must have a pointer to that memory area in order to do the matching > in the first place (although I realize the code may be separated by a > gulf of abstraction :-).
It shouldn't be too bad - I tracked it down through sre_compile, and everything seems to funnel into match_getslice_by_index [1], so it should be possible to detect the non-bytes, non-strings there and coerce them to bytes. OTOH, you can already get the same effect by explicitly wrapping the input in memoryview before passing it to re, and then converting the output to bytes to release the reference to the underlying data, and doing that doesn't raise ugly backwards compatibility concerns.... Cheers, Nick. [1] http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/daf9ea42b610/Modules/_sre.c#l3198 -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia _______________________________________________ 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
