> On Fri, Jun 30, 2000 at 11:07:16AM -0500, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> >To someone familiar with '\x00ffffffffffffff' == '\377', the failure
> >is surprising. What Would Larry Do? (I.e. is this in Perl?)
>
> It uses two digits: "\x00ffff" is the string "<binary 0>ffff".
>
> >Maybe make it dependent on the type of the searched string ('\377')
> >rather than on the type of the pattern?
>
> Won't work; you could just be compiling a pattern to make a regex
> object, and have no idea what you're matching against.
OK. Let's change our spec.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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