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Cc: Python-Dev
Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Possibly inconsistent behavior in re
groupdict
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 21:36:20 -0700
Hi Gordon,
You pose an interesting question that I don't think anyone has posed
before. Having thought about it, I think that the keys in the group
dict are
Hi Gordon,
You pose an interesting question that I don't think anyone has posed
before. Having thought about it, I think that the keys in the group
dict are similar to the names of variables or attributes, and I think
treating them always as strings makes sense. For example, I might
write a functi
I've been lurking for a couple of months, working up the confidence to
ask the list about this behavior - I've searched through the PEPs but
couldn't find any specific reference to it.
In a nutshell, in the Python 3.5 library re patterns and search buffers
both need to be either unicode or byte st
