[Python-Dev] SRE: what to do with undocumented attributes? (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh Fredrik Lundh" <effbot@telia.com
Fri, 31 Mar 2000 01:05:15 +0200

Andrew wrote:

>RegexObjects: > code -- a PCRE code object > pattern -- the source pattern > groupindex -- maps group names to group indices =20 pattern and groupindex are documented in the Library Reference, and they're part of the public interface.

hmm. I could have sworn... guess I didn't look carefully enough (or someone's used his time machine again :-).

oh well, more bloat...

btw, "pattern" doesn't make much sense in SRE -- who says the pattern object was created by re.compile? guess I'll just set it to None in other cases (e.g. sregex, sreverb, sgema...)