[Python-ideas] Proposed convenience functions for re module

[Gerald Britton]

So, in 2003 it was discussed but considered not ready for prime time.
If six years is not enough to get it ready, I can't imagine what would
be.

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Robert Kern<robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2009-07-23 11:50, Paul Moore wrote:
>>
>> 2009/7/23 Robert Kern<robert.kern at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> On 2009-07-22 19:49, Greg Ewing wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Georg Brandl wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> You might be interested in the undocumented re.Scanner class :)
>>>>
>>>> It looks like it could be interesting, but with no
>>>> documentation, how are we supposed to tell?
>>>>
>>>> Is there *any* information about it available
>>>> anywhere?
>>>
>>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/035075.html
>>
>> Question: Is there any reason (other than lack of time) why it's
>> undocumented?
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/035070.html
>
> --
> Robert Kern
>
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>  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it
> had
>  an underlying truth."
>  -- Umberto Eco
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Gerald Britton