From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 15:52:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: I know this is only a temporary stop-gap measure, but the match() and
X-Git-Tag: v2.0b1~1883
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b6aecb08c5496402189f455c4f07654902a8a51;p=python

I know this is only a temporary stop-gap measure, but the match() and
search() functions didn't even work because _fixflags() isn't
idempotent.  I'm adding another stop-gap measure so that you can at
least use sre.search() and sre.match() with a zero flags arg.
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diff --git a/Lib/sre.py b/Lib/sre.py
index 0b4105721f..79878b35c4 100644
--- a/Lib/sre.py
+++ b/Lib/sre.py
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ def match(pattern, string, flags=0):
     return compile(pattern, _fixflags(flags)).match(string)
 
 def search(pattern, string, flags=0):
-    assert flags == 0
     return compile(pattern, _fixflags(flags)).search(string)
 
 # FIXME: etc
@@ -41,6 +40,6 @@ def search(pattern, string, flags=0):
 
 def _fixflags(flags):
     # convert flag bitmask to sequence
-    assert flags == 0
+    assert not flags
     return ()