[Tutor] getting original pattern from regular expression object

[Rich Lovely]

On 20 April 2010 03:25, Tino Dai <oberoc at gmail.com> wrote:
> If I have:
>
> import re
> a=re.compile('foo')
>
> is there a way to get the original pattern of foo from the object a?
>
> Thanks,
> Tino
>
>
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a.pattern:

>>> import re
>>> a = re.compile("foo")
>>> a.pattern
'foo'


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