Brad Tilley wrote:
> Is there a quick way to make re.compile show what it's looking for?
>
> x = re.compile('[a-z]')
What do you want?
>>> import re
>>> x = re.compile('[a-z]')
>>> x.pattern
'[a-z]'
>>> import sre_parse # undocumented internal module ;)
>>> sre_parse.parse(x.pattern)
[('in', [('range', (97, 122))])]
>>>
Andrew
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