How to print SRE_Pattern (regexp object) text for debugging purposes?

[MRAB]

dmtr wrote:
> On Jun 17, 3:35 pm, MRAB <pyt... at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>>  >>> import re
>>  >>> r = re.compile('^abc$', re.I)
>>  >>> r.pattern
>> '^abc$'
>>  >>> r.flags
>> 2
> 
> Hey, thanks. It works.
> 
> Couldn't find it in a reference somehow.
> And it's not in the inspect.getmembers(r).
> Must be doing something wrong.....
> 
Occasionally you'll find classes whose instances don't reveal all their
attributes to dir() and so forth, so it's always a good idea to
double-check the documentation.

The documentation mentions the .pattern and .flags attributes at:

     http://docs.python.org/library/re.html
     Section 7.2.4. Regular Expression Objects

(Python 2.6)