Attached patch implements rich comparison for _sre.SRE_Pattern objects created by re.compile().

Comparison between patterns is used in the warnings module to not add duplicated filters, see issue #18383:

New changeset f57f4e33ba5e by Martin Panter in branch '3.5':
Issue #18383: Avoid adding duplicate filters when warnings is reloaded
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f57f4e33ba5e

For the warnings module, it became a problem in test_warnings since the Python test runner started to clear all caches. When re.purge() is called, re.compile() creates a new object, whereas with the cache it returns the same object and so the two patterns are equal since it's the same object. => see issue #28688