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Make RE "a", "L" and "u" inline flags local #75871

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serhiy-storchaka opened this issue Oct 4, 2017 · 4 comments
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Make RE "a", "L" and "u" inline flags local #75871

serhiy-storchaka opened this issue Oct 4, 2017 · 4 comments
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BPO 31690
Nosy @warsaw, @ezio-melotti, @serhiy-storchaka
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  • bpo-31672: string: Use re.A | re.I flag for identifier pattern #3872
  • bpo-31690: Make "a", "L" and "u" inline flags in regular expressions local. #3885
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    Currently re supports local inline flags. 'a(?i:b)' matches 'a' cases-sensitively, but 'b' case-insensitively. But flags 'a' and 'L' can't be scoped to a subpattern. The 'u' flag currently just redundant, it doesn't make effect in string patterns, and is not allowed in bytes patterns. They can be applied only to the whole pattern. I think it would be nice to make them local.

    The example of the problem that this can solve is bpo-31672. Currently '[a-z]' in Unicode case-insensitive mode matches not only Latin letters from ;a' to 'z' and from 'A' to 'Z', but also characters 'İ', 'ı', 'ſ' and 'K' which are equivalent to 'i', 's' and 'k' correspondingly. With local 'a' and 'u' flags you can use ASCII and Unicode ranges in the same pattern.

    I'm working on the patch.

    @serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka added the 3.7 (EOL) end of life label Oct 4, 2017
    @serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka self-assigned this Oct 4, 2017
    @serhiy-storchaka serhiy-storchaka added stdlib Python modules in the Lib dir topic-regex type-feature A feature request or enhancement labels Oct 4, 2017
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    PR 3885 is a preliminary but working implementation. Needed new tests and documentation.

    >>> import re
>>> re.findall('(?i:[a-z]+)', ''.join(map(chr, range(0x10000))))
['ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz', 'İı', 'ſ', 'K']
>>> re.findall('(?ia:[a-z]+)', ''.join(map(chr, range(0x10000))))
['ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ', 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz']

    The engine now uses separate opcodes for case-insensitive matching in ASCII, UNICODE and LOCALE modes. It may cause small speed up of matching, but slow down of compiling.

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    Added tests and the documentation.

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    New changeset 3557b05 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'master':
    bpo-31690: Allow the inline flags "a", "L", and "u" to be used as group flags for RE. (bpo-3885)
    3557b05

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