[Python-ideas] Give regex operations more sugar

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 10:59:34PM +0200, Michel Desmoulin wrote:

> > Attaching an entire module to a type is probably worse than
> > adding a slew of extra methods to the type.
> > 
> 
> Not my point.
> 
> str.re would not be the re module, just a namespace where to group all
> regex related string methods.

That's what a module is :-)

How would this work? If I say:

"My string".re.match(...)

if str.re is "just a namespace" how will the match function know the 
string it is to operate on?


-- 
Steve