Some patterns can be compiled in str form but not in bytes form. This
was overlooked because the test suite wasn't correctly adapted for py3k:

>>> re.compile('[\\1]')
<_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0xb7be1410>
>>> re.compile('\\09')
<_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0xb7c4f2f0>
>>> re.compile('\\n')
<_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0xb7be1f50>

but:

>>> re.compile(b'[\\1]')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/re.py", line 188, in compile
return _compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/re.py", line 240, in _compile
p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_compile.py", line 497, in
compile
p = sre_parse.parse(p, flags)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_parse.py", line 685, in parse
p = _parse_sub(source, pattern, 0)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_parse.py", line 320, in
_parse_sub
itemsappend(_parse(source, state))
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_parse.py", line 409, in _parse
this = sourceget()
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_parse.py", line 215, in get
self.__next()
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_parse.py", line 204, in __next
char = char + c
TypeError: Can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly
>>> re.compile(b'\\09')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/re.py", line 188, in compile
return _compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/re.py", line 240, in _compile
p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_compile.py", line 497, in
compile
p = sre_parse.parse(p, flags)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_parse.py", line 678, in parse
source = Tokenizer(str)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_parse.py", line 187, in
__init__
self.__next()
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_parse.py", line 204, in __next
char = char + c
TypeError: Can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly
>>> re.compile(b'\\n')
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/re.py", line 188, in compile
return _compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/re.py", line 240, in _compile
p = sre_compile.compile(pattern, flags)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_compile.py", line 497, in
compile
p = sre_parse.parse(p, flags)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_parse.py", line 678, in parse
source = Tokenizer(str)
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_parse.py", line 187, in
__init__
self.__next()
  File "/home/antoine/py3k/reunicode/Lib/sre_parse.py", line 204, in __next
char = char + c
TypeError: Can't convert 'int' object to str implicitly

Here is a patch fixing both the bug and the test suite.

Can we make sure this is fixed for beta 3? (Beta 2 would be great too,
but it's getting late.)

Antoine's patch (with a 3 character fix) looks just fine to me. Guido,
I'm assigning this to you because svn annotate tells me, you made this
change.

I think the fix is trivial enough. Committed in r65185.