regex into str

[Peter Kleiweg]

Diez B. Roggisch schreef:

> Jeff Epler wrote:
>
> > This is intended to be impossible.
> >
> > Even if you could assign to str.__div__ (and this is very deliberately and
> > specifically disallowed) you would end up disappointed, because strings
> > are immutable.  That means there's nowhere to store "the last match",
> > no way to mutate the string with the "/=" operator, and also that the
> > interpreter is free to use the same storage for two equal strings.
>
> Another reason for not allowing this is that modifying builtins can lead to
> severe bugs, as other libs might rely on certain functionality. If you
> change that, things start getting very weird....

Programming causes bugs. That's not a reason to disallow programming.

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