[Python-Dev] Re: Missing arguments in RE functions

[Noam Raphael]

Ok, so I understand that Guido doesn't want to extend the functions' API 
to have the full functionality. Fine.
However, I've suggested three things that I think should be done in that 
case, and nobody objected.
Here they are:
1. Add a prominent note in the module contents page or in the module's 
main page, stating that some functionality can only be acheived by using 
compiled REs.
2. Document the optional parameters which let you specify the start and 
end pos in the findall and finditer methods of a compiled RE object.
3. Add the optional parameter "flags" to the findall and finditer 
functions. Then, the four functions match, search, findall and finditer 
would have the same interface: function(pattern, string[, flags]).

Does anyone have any objections?

Noam