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Fri Sep 10 15:57:12 CEST 2004 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-September/048778.html

    Raymond> I'm down to +0 on the request.  Keeping the API stable is also
    Raymond> important.  And, Fred's effort to separate basic from advanced
    Raymond> seems reasonable.

Adding my two cents, I'm -1 on the idea.  I view re.match() and friends as
convenience functions.  There's no reason to provide all the functionality
of the slightly lower-level re.compile().  If we were to do that, I'd
propose (facetiously) that we deprecate re.compile() as well.

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[Python-Dev] Re: Missing arguments in RE functions