I've been working on code that works a lot like string.Template and in the process, I stumbled on re.Scanner. I have two questions. 1) Is re.Scanner ever going to be official? Can I count on it being in future versions of python? It's been there for a really long time, so I assume so, but something that's undocumented seems that it could be dropped easily. 2) Is there a reason that string.Template doesn't use re.Scanner? My understanding of re.Scanner is that it is exactly what you want for something like string.Template. Thanks, Nate Binkert
2009/9/17 nathan binkert
I've been working on code that works a lot like string.Template and in the process, I stumbled on re.Scanner. I have two questions. 1) Is re.Scanner ever going to be official? Can I count on it being in future versions of python? It's been there for a really long time, so I assume so, but something that's undocumented seems that it could be dropped easily.
See http://bugs.python.org/issue5337.
2) Is there a reason that string.Template doesn't use re.Scanner? My understanding of re.Scanner is that it is exactly what you want for something like string.Template.
Perhaps because it wasn't documented. :) -- Regards, Benjamin
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Benjamin Peterson
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nathan binkert