[Python-ideas] Experiment: Adding "re" to string objects.

[Lie Ryan]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 07:47:05 am Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
>>    if s.re.match(r'whatever(.*)'):
>>       s.re.group(1)
> 
> To me, the above is far less attractive than the standard idiom. That's 
> an aesthetic judgement which you might disagree with, but I believe 
> there's a far more critical flaw in the above idiom: it operates by 
> side-effect in an unsafe way.

I agree with your concerns. Then how about restricting so
str.match/str.re.match would only return True or False? Basically,
str.match/str.re.match is only used to determine whether a string
matches a regular expression and not to extract information out of the
string.