[Python-Dev] SRE incompatibility

[Andrew Kuchling]

On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:07:16AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>To someone familiar with '\x00ffffffffffffff' == '\377', the failure
>is surprising.  What Would Larry Do?  (I.e. is this in Perl?)

It uses two digits: "\x00ffff" is the string "<binary 0>ffff".

>Maybe make it dependent on the type of the searched string ('\377')
>rather than on the type of the pattern?

Won't work; you could just be compiling a pattern to make a regex
object, and have no idea what you're matching against.

--amk