On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettinger@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jul 25, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Michael Foord wrote:
Python standard library modules currently using integers for constants:
* re - has flags (OR'able constants) defined in sre_constants, each flag has two names (e.g. re.IGNORECASE and re.I)
What is being proposed here? Will there be a new namespace so that we would start writing re.Flags.IGNORECASE instead of re.IGNORECASE? Are module level constants now going to be considered bad-form? If constants switch from re.IGNORECASE to re.flags.IGNORECASE, are there any benefits to compensate for being both wordier and slower?
Well, I'll be happy to write: from re import compile as re, Flags as ref (not sure exact names, but you've got the idea) -- Paul