searching backwards in a string

[Skip Montanaro]

    Paul> I propose adding a "direction flag" to the search function:

    Paul>    match = pattern.search(text, 50000, -1, direction=-1)

    Paul> here 50000 and -1 are the starting and ending locations.

If start > end isn't direction == -1 implied?

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