[Python-ideas] Python 2's re module should take longs

This works: re.search('(abc)', 'abc').group(1) but this doesn't: re.search('(abc)', 'abc').group(1L) The latter raises "IndexError: no such group". Shouldn't that technically work? -- Ryan If anybody ever asks me why I prefer C++ to C, my answer will be simple: "It's becauseslejfp23(@#Q*(E*EIdc-SEGFAULT. Wait, I don't think that was nul-terminated." Personal reality distortion fields are immune to contradictory evidence. - srean Check out my website: http://kirbyfan64.github.io/