[Python-3000] Regular expressions, py3k and unicode

[Nick Coghlan]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
> 
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> 
>> wrote:
>>> Wouldn't it be more natural that, at least when the pattern is a str 
>>> object
>>> rather a bytes object, the re.UNICODE be implied by default?
>>
>> +1
> 
> Would there be any reason (I do not know) to replace that with an 
> re.ASCII flag to have the reverse effect (assuming there is not now)?

I'd be inclined to have it implied by the type of the argument - a str 
argument implies re.UNICODE is set, a bytes or bytearray argument 
implies it isn't. Users could still set it explicitly to have it apply 
in the latter case.

Cheers,
Nick.

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