[Python-3000] More wishful thinking

Sun Apr 16 01:04:19 CEST 2006

 Giovanni> I'm sure you were talking more generically, but as for this
 Giovanni> specific case (which is indeed very common), I always wondered
 Giovanni> why re couldn't export wrappers around bound methods of the
 Giovanni> last match object, so to allow:
 Giovanni> if re.match(...):
 Giovanni> x,y = re.group(1), re.group(2)
 Giovanni> elif re.match(..):
 Giovanni> ...
Because then the re module wouldn't be thread safe.
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