binding a reference to a variable

[Aahz]

In article <yu99vgazifhp.fsf at europa.research.att.com>,
Andrew Koenig  <ark at research.att.com> wrote:
>
>Fredrik> you could of course use a RE-like approach:
>
>Yes, that's one possibility.

You say that as though you don't really like the idea.  But that *is*
the Pythonic approach: return an object that you can probe to get the
appropriate information.
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