[Python-Dev] string.find() again (was Re: timsort for jython)

[Greg Ewing]

> > 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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