Roy Smith wrote: > More to the point: > > You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand, AMEN!
That's simply an implementation detail of perl regexps; it doesn't really address the issue. For example, in ruby a regexp is an object. Matches are also objects when one uses the String#match and Regexp#match methods rather than the =~ operator: s = 'file=blah.txt' r = /file=(.*)/ puts r # => (?-mix:file=(.*)) m = s.match(r) puts m.inspect # => #<MatchData:0xb7c24f90> m = r.match(s) puts m.inspect # => #<MatchData:0xb7c24e64> Regards, Jordan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
