On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:45:36 -0400, Steve Holden wrote: > Dan wrote: >> foo_re = re.compile(r"foo(bar)") >> # . . . >> if foo_re.search(line): >> foo_re.last_result().group(1) >> > If you wanted to implement this I don't really see why a method call is > necessary. It would surely only need to be a simple attribute? > > Of course you then introduce the possibility that someone will reference > if before using the RE in a search, plus it still requires separate > storage if you want the ability to use the same RE for two different > matches and compare the match results.
I've long felt that publicly accessible attributes probably should be syntactic sugared to look like accessor methods, a bit like how __add__ ends up being + - so that if your attribute ever needs to become methods (say, it started out life as a unidimensional thing, but later needs to be a flattening of 3 dimensions or something), you won't necessarily need to change depenent code. But are methods a lot more expensive in python than referencing other kinds of attributes? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
