[issue22434] Use named constants internally in the re module
Serhiy Storchaka
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Sep 19 10:00:14 CEST 2014
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:
Here is a patch using enums. I still think enums are superfluous here. Advanced the Enum class features (pickling, access by name, type checking) are not needed - these constants don't leaked in outer word.
> I don't see where there would be a circular dependency; the enum module
> doesn't import the re module.
Right now there is no circular dependency. But the enum module imports collections which imports a lot of other modules, some of which import other modules. In future some of indirectly imported module can import the re module.
> There is one thing that might be less convenient: defining an enum doesn't
> automatically make the values globals. But wouldn't the code be better if
> the values weren't globals?
I afraid this will make the code of parser and compiler less readable and slower. In any case the sre_constants module itself is a namespace.
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36657/re_opcode_enums.patch
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