Rustom Mody <rustompm...@gmail.com> writes: > Ben Finney said: > > But this is all getting rather generic and abstract. What specific > > real-world examples do you have in mind? > > regex match vs regex search?
That's not showing a real-world example. Where is the code which is prone to “lots of shared code but can't refactor it to a common function”? -- \ “I fly Air Bizarre. You buy a combination one-way round-trip | `\ ticket. Leave any Monday, and they bring you back the previous | _o__) Friday. That way you still have the weekend.” —Steven Wright | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list