Dominic Davis-Foster <dom131...@googlemail.com> added the comment:
Could the sre_parse and sre_constants modules be kept with public names (i.e. without the leading underscore) but within the re namespace? I use them to tokenize and then syntax highlight regular expressions. I did a quick search and found a few other users of the modules: * pydoctor uses them for regex syntax highlighting[1], although it has its own copy of the sre_parse source rather than importing from stdlib. * lark uses sre_parse to find minimum and maximum length of matching strings[2] * sre_yield uses them to determine all strings that will match a regex[3] The whole modules don't necessarily need exposing, but certainly sre_parse.parse, sre_parse.parse_template, and the opcodes from sre_constants would be the most useful. [1] https://github.com/twisted/pydoctor/blob/c86273dffade5455890570142c8b7b068f5dffd1/pydoctor/epydoc/markup/_pyval_repr.py#L776 [2] https://github.com/lark-parser/lark/blob/85ea92ebf4e983e9997f9953a9c1463bb3d1c6cc/lark/utils.py#L120 [3] https://github.com/google/sre_yield/blob/3af063a0054c4646608b43b941fbfcbe4e01214a/sre_yield/__init__.py ---------- nosy: +dom1310df _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue47152> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
