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Author	nedbat
Recipients	coldfix, ncoghlan, nedbat, nikratio, xtreak
Date	2018-10-27.13:46:09
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Message-id	<[email protected]>
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Another option is to make clear in the docs that the command line does not accept regular expressions, but only literal module names, and raise an error if a non-importable name (for example with asterisks in it) is specified. And while we are here: the docs show "error:::mymodule[.*]" which doesn't even make sense as a regex!

Another option is to make clear in the docs that the command line does not accept regular expressions, but only literal module names, and raise an error if a non-importable name (for example with asterisks in it) is specified.

And while we are here: the docs show "error:::mymodule[.*]" which doesn't even make sense as a regex!

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Date	User	Action	Args
2018-10-27 13:46:10	nedbat	set	recipients: + nedbat, ncoghlan, nikratio, xtreak, coldfix
2018-10-27 13:46:09	nedbat	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2018-10-27 13:46:09	nedbat	link	issue34624 messages
2018-10-27 13:46:09	nedbat	create