Comment by mixmastamyk

> It is exactly two strings that are required

It is exactly as I said, it's not just strings

    $ python3.12 -c '
    import re
    pat = re.compile("who knew")
    ma = re.match(pat, "who knew types matter")
    print(ma)
    '
    <re.Match object; span=(0, 8), match='who knew'>

> The docs are there for flags etc, use them.

I guess it's good we're all using LLMs nowadays, since in general computers no read so good, that's why we write in specialized languages for their benefit. That would include this fancy new thing I've heard about where one writes down what the input and output domains are for functions

> Types were not entered directly into stdlib source for historical reasons.

Historical reasons defeats the purpose of having git tags, to say nothing of them having several concurrent branches named after the various release trains. I mean, historically print was a keyword, but you sure don't see them from __future__ import print_statement all over the 3.12 tree now do you? It's because they DGAF preferring there to be seemingly unlimited aftermarket tooling to try and drag python3000 into the 21st century

> If you would enjoy further support, install stubs from typeshed.

While trying to dig up whatever a sane person would use to "install stubs" -- because it for damn sure isn't $(pip install typeshed) -- I learned that you were even more incorrect - it accepts bytes, too https://github.com/python/typeshed/blob/9430260770b627c04313...

Anyway, they also go out of their way to say "don't install typeshed" and I guess that's why they don't have any git tags because releases are for children