[issue39165] Completeness and symmetry in RE, avoid `findall(...)[0]`

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger at gmail.com> added the comment:

I concur with Serhiy and Terry.  Marking this as "closed/rejected".  

Adding more-ways-to-it usually doesn't make users better-off (more to learn, more to remember, more to choose from, creating a new question about whether or not to use re.search(), creating another inter-version API difference, etc.)

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resolution:  -> rejected
stage:  -> resolved
status: open -> closed

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