[Python-Dev] defaultdict and on_missing()
Aahz
aahz at pythoncraft.com
Thu Mar 2 17:45:56 CET 2006
On Thu, Mar 02, 2006, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On 3/2/06, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 07:26 -0800, Aahz wrote:
>>>
>>> OTOH, my personal style is to always use re.compile() because I can
>>> never remember the order of arguments for re.match()/re.search().
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> I don't have that problem, because the order is the same either way:
>
> re.compile(pattern).match(line)
> re.match(pattern, line)
But that would require thinking! ;-) More seriously, much as I hate the
way ''.join() looks, I have never gotten mixed up about argument order as
I used to with string.join().
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