I feel like this is all example of "not every one line function needs to be in the standard library."
You can easily write your own 'match_or_raise()'... I guess it would take two lines, actually. On Sat, Oct 21, 2023, 2:42 PM Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I bet this has been discussed before but I couldn't find it. I'd > appreciate it if anyone could point me to that thread. > > I'm sick of seeing "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute > 'foo'" whenever there's a `re.match` operation that fails while the code > expects it to succeed. What do you think about a flag `require` such that > `re.match(pattern, string, require=True)` would either return a match or > raise an exception with an actually useful message? > > > Thanks, > Ram. > _______________________________________________ > 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/PLF46RTMGJUIXRPXPLHZUPLTLGE47TQA/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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