PEP 358 and operations on bytes

[Fredrik Lundh]

John Machin wrote:

> But not on other integer subtypes. If regexps should not be restricted
> to text, they should work on domains whose number of symbols is greater
> than 256, shouldn't they?

they do:

import re, array

data = [0, 1, 1, 2]

array_type = "IH"[re.sre_compile.MAXCODE == 0xffff]

a = array.array(array_type, data)

m = re.search(r"\x01+", a)

if m:
     print m.span()
     print m.group()

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