On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 at 04:39, <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: > > On 2020-09-28 at 23:10:24 -0000, > Giang Le <giang.lh0...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I would like to propose an idea for the regular expression module > > re.search(Pattern, Input) to support List[str] input type. > > > So it will return a matched object list if the input is a string > > list. Otherwise, it will return a normal matched object, if the input > > is a normal string > > How would that change be better than a new function: > > def regex_search_list(regex, pattern, list_of_inputs): > [regex.search(pattern, input) for input in list_of_inputs] > > (or possibly an equivalent method of regexen)?
I suppose that another advantage is that the list is passed to C, so it's faster. Not sure such an overloading is desirable. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/LDYHQEKW776JISFA6FNBGETVUCUW2KQT/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
