[issue11957] re.sub confusion between count and flags args
Serhiy Storchaka
report at bugs.python.org
Sun Sep 25 17:14:29 EDT 2016
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
Here are two alternative patches. The first patch checks if count or maxsplit arguments are re.RegexFlag and raise TypeError if it is true. This makes misusing flags fail fast. The second patch deprecates passing count and maxsplit arguments as positional arguments. This imposes your to change your code (even if it is valid now) and makes hard misusing flags.
Unfortunately both ways slow down calling functions.
$ ./python -m perf timeit -s "import re" -- 're.split(":", ":a:b::c", 2)'
unpatched: Median +- std dev: 2.73 us +- 0.09 us
check_flags_type: Median +- std dev: 3.74 us +- 0.09 us
deprecate_positional_count: Median +- std dev: 10.6 us +- 0.2 us
$ ./python -m perf timeit -s "import re" -- 're.split(":", ":a:b::c", maxsplit=2)'
unpatched: Median +- std dev: 2.78 us +- 0.07 us
check_flags_type: Median +- std dev: 3.75 us +- 0.10 us
deprecate_positional_count: Median +- std dev: 2.86 us +- 0.08 us
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stage: -> patch review
versions: +Python 3.6, Python 3.7 -Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file44825/re_check_flags_type.patch
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