[Python-Dev] string.find() again (was Re: timsort for jython)
Greg Ewing
greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:01:19 +1200 (NZST)
> > Greg> re in string
> >
> > Greg> should be made to work too, where re is a regular
> > Greg> expression object?
> >
> > Then the core language would have to know about regular
> > expressions, right?
>
> Um, yes. That kills the idea (unless you want to write this as
> "string in re", which almost makes sense :-).
Maybe there should be an __in__ method that gets called
on the left operand if the __contains__ of the right
operand doesn't know what to do?
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