"Clayton Kirkwood" <c...@godblessthe.us> writes: > Also of confusion, the library reference says: > > Match objects always have a boolean value of True. Since match() and > search() return None when there is no match, you can test whether there was > a match with a simple if statement: > > match = re.search(pattern, string) > if match: > process(match)
The documentation is incorrect, as you point out: “have a boolean value of True” implies that the value is identical to the built-in ‘True’ constant, which is never the case for these objects. Instead, the passage above should say “evaluates true in a boolean context”. Would you be so kind as to report a bug to that effect <URL:http://bugs.python.org/>? -- \ “The Vatican is not a state.… a state must have people. There | `\ are no Vaticanians.… No-one gets born in the Vatican except by | _o__) an unfortunate accident.” —Geoffrey Robertson, 2010-09-18 | Ben Finney _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
