[wingide-users] Match objects etc

[Charles Hartman]

On Jan 15, 2005, at 11:24 PM, Dave Aitel wrote:

> Charles Hartman wrote:
>
>> Is there any way -- *could* there be any way? -- to look inside 
>> things like SRE Match objects and Pattern objects? It would be handy, 
>> during debugging, to be able to consult things like pattern.group(), 
>> pattern.span(), without inserting dummy variables in the code to make 
>> them explicit.
>>
>
> Can't you just pop up the debug window and have those expressions 
> evaluated?
>
> -dave

Well, I don't think so. No expansion triangle beside it (unlike, say, a 
list). Double-clicking gives a message saying debug-watch isn't 
available (because I'm using Personal), but that's not what I want 
anyway. It looks as though a Match object falls under what Help calls 
Opaque Data, though I'm not really clear why. Am I, as so often, 
missing something really obvious?

COH