[Tutor] Regular Expresions instances

Emile van Sebille emile at fenx.com
Wed Apr 29 01:15:55 CEST 2009


Emilio Casbas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> following the example from
> http://docs.python.org/3.0/howto/regex.html

...from version 3.0 docs...

> 
> If I execute the following code on the python shell (3.1a1):
> 
>>>> import re
>>>> p = re.compile('ab*')
>>>> p
> 
> I get the msg:
> <_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x013A3440>


... is the same as I get on version 2.5.  Coincidence?

> 
> instead of the msg from the example:
> <re.RegexObject instance at 80b4150>
> 
> Why I get an SRE_Patterns object instead of a RegexObject instance?
> 
> Regards
> Emilio
> 
> 
> 
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