Message 134830 - Python tracker

Message134830

Author	ezio.melotti
Recipients	eric.smith, ezio.melotti, mindauga, mrabarnett
Date	2011-04-30.02:23:34
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Since this has been reported already several times (see e.g. #11947), and it's a fairly common mistake, I think we should do something to avoid it. A few possibilities are: 1) add a warning in the doc; 2) make count and flag keyword-only argument (raising a deprecation warning in 3.3 and actually change it later); 3) change the regex flags to some object that can be distinguished from ints and raise an error when a flag is passed to count;

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Since this has been reported already several times (see e.g. #11947), and it's a fairly common mistake, I think we should do something to avoid it.

A few possibilities are:
  1) add a warning in the doc;
  2) make count and flag keyword-only argument (raising a deprecation warning in 3.3 and actually change it later);
  3) change the regex flags to some object that can be distinguished from ints and raise an error when a flag is passed to count;

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-04-30 02:23:35	ezio.melotti	set	recipients: + ezio.melotti, eric.smith, mrabarnett, mindauga
2011-04-30 02:23:35	ezio.melotti	set	messageid: <1304130215.79.0.491137776612.issue11957@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-04-30 02:23:35	ezio.melotti	link	issue11957 messages
2011-04-30 02:23:34	ezio.melotti	create