On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:27 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > For the work on updating the re module there was a discussion about > whether named capture groups should be available as attributes of the > match object or via subscripting (or both?). Subscripting seemed > preferable to me because: > > 1. Adding attributes looks too much like 'magic'. > > 2. What should happen if a group name conflicts with a normal attribute? > > 3. What should happen if a group name conflicts with a reserved word? > > For those reasons the new regex module uses subscripting. It's more > Pythonic, IMHO.
I agree with 2) and 3) and in general this is probably a "good approach". cheers James -- -- James Mills -- -- "Problems are solved by method" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
