Re: [Python-ideas] Proposed convenience functions for re module

MRAB wrote:

Extend the current re.match and re.search to accept a tuple of patterns:

m = re.match((pattern0, pattern1, pattern2, pattern3), s) if m: print m.group()

Also give the match object an 'index' attribute indicating which pattern matched, so you can do m = re.match((pattern1, pattern2, pattern3, pattern4), s) if m: if m.index == 0: # pattern0 matched elif m.index == 1: # pattern1 matched # etc. -- Greg