> http://sourceforge.net/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=115845&group_id=5470
>
> > Details: Split gives TypeError when called as a method of compiled
> > regular expression object with maxsplit as keyword argument.
> > This error is only in sre, pre is OK.
> >
> > Python 1.6 (#2, Sep 6 2000, 18:20:07) [C] on osf1V4
> > >>> import re
> > >>> patt = re.compile(' ')
> > >>> list = patt.split("a b c",50) # OK
> > >>> list = re.split(' ',"a b c",maxsplit=50) # OK
> > >>> list = patt.split("a b c",maxsplit=50) # ERROR
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
> > TypeError: this function takes no keyword arguments
> >
> > >>> import pre
> > >>> patt = pre.compile(' ')
> > >>> list = patt.split("a b c",maxsplit=50) # OK
>
> is this really a bug? should users expect to be able to use
> keyword arguments anywhere?
Unclear, but the names were documented, and it worked before (when
pattern objects were Python instances) -- so who knows how much code
there's lying around that assumes this. Well, we know it's more than
zero, because the bug report came from soemone who ran into this. :-)
Can we at PythonLabs help by adding keyword arguments to all of the
_sre.c functions? I presume it's a pretty straightforward change.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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