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

[dmtr]

I need to print the regexp pattern text (SRE_Pattern object ) for
debugging purposes, is there any way to do it gracefully? I've came up
with the following hack, but it is rather crude... Is there an
official way to get the regexp pattern text?

"cre\n_compile\np0\n(S'^abc$'\np1\nI2\ntp2\nRp3\n."

-- Cheers, Dmitry

 

[MRAB]

I need to print the regexp pattern text (SRE_Pattern object ) for
debugging purposes, is there any way to do it gracefully? I've came up
with the following hack, but it is rather crude... Is there an
official way to get the regexp pattern text?

2

 

[dmtr]

 >>> 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.....

-- Cheers, Dmitry

 

[MRAB]

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)