[Python-3000] More wishful thinking

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    Giovanni> I'm sure you were talking more generically, but as for this
    Giovanni> specific case (which is indeed very common), I always wondered
    Giovanni> why re couldn't export wrappers around bound methods of the
    Giovanni> last match object, so to allow:

    Giovanni> if re.match(...):
    Giovanni>    x,y = re.group(1), re.group(2)
    Giovanni> elif re.match(..):
    Giovanni>    ...

Because then the re module wouldn't be thread safe.

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