Consider adding replace() ?

[florisla]

Hi,

I find parse a lovely module which is much more intuitive than regular expressions. Thanks!

Most of the times I need to revert to re is when I want to replace text (using re.sub()).

For supporting this it would be great to have

• Property Result.span (or .start and .end) -- equivalent to min(span[0] for span in result.spans.values()) and max(span[1] for span in result.spans.values()).
• parse.replace(format, string, replacement) and equivalent Parser.replace().

Have you considered adding this?

I do realize it may be out of scope since parse is simply the reverse of format.

[r1chardj0n3s]

Yeah, I'm strongly leaning towards saying "just use format()" :)

[florisla]

That's fair; thanks for considering!