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Author mrabarnett
Recipients dwt, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, pitrou, rhettinger
Date 2011-12-13.21:24:19
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Actually, one possibility that occurs to me is to provide the flags within the pattern. The .pattern attribute gives the original pattern, but repr could give the flags in-line at the start of the pattern:

>>> # Assuming Python 3.
>>> r = re.compile("a", re.I)
>>> r.flags
34
>>> r.pattern
'a'
>>> repr(r)
"<_sre.SRE_Pattern '(?i)a'>"

I'm not sure how to make it eval-able, unless you mean something more like:

>>> repr(r)
"re.Regex('(?i)a')"

where re.Regex == re.compile, which would be more meaningful than:

>>> repr(r)
"re.compile('(?i)a')"
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