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Author ethan.furman
Recipients ethan.furman, gvanrossum, python-dev, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2016-09-11.21:55:46
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The patch was initially from Serhiy as part of issue23591.  So it's safe to say at least one person requested it, and a core dev at that.

I will happily make it two people: as an occasional user of re having the constants be named makes it much easier for me to use; I daresay that is true for other occasional users.  IIRC giving names to numbers was one of the motivating factors in having Enum in the first place.

I do agree that RegexFlag is a better name -- I wasn't real happy with Flag but didn't want to miss the cutoff.
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