Bugs item #1234985, was opened at 2005-07-08 23:46 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by pterk You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1234985&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Regular Expressions Group: Python 2.4 Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Steve Alexander (stevea_zope) Assigned to: Gustavo Niemeyer (niemeyer) Summary: using some_re.sub() often imports sre.__doc__ Initial Comment: Why is __doc__ imported from the builtin sre module when a regular expression is substituted replacing a group? $ python Python 2.4.1 (#2, Mar 30 2005, 21:51:10) [GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-8ubuntu2)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> def import_hook(name, globals={}, locals={}, fromlist=[]): ... print name, fromlist ... return original_import(name, globals, locals, fromlist) ... >>> import __builtin__ >>> original_import = __builtin__.__import__ >>> __builtin__.__import__ = import_hook >>> import re re None sre ('*',) sys None sre_compile None _sre None sys None sre_constants ('*',) sre_parse None sys None sre_constants ('*',) sre_parse None copy_reg None sre ('__all__',) >>> re1 = re.compile('foo...bar') sre_parse None >>> re1.sub('x', 'y') 'y' >>> re1.sub('x', 'fooXXXbar') 'x' >>> re2 = re.compile('foo(...)bar') sre_parse None >>> re2.sub('x', 'y') 'y' >>> re2.sub('\1', 'fooXXXbar') sre ['__doc__'] 'XXX' ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Peter van Kampen (pterk) Date: 2005-07-24 14:27 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=174455 Below is the full source of re.py. Does your problem go away when you use sre directly instead? """Minimal "re" compatibility wrapper. See "sre" for documentation.""" engine = "sre" # Some apps might use this undocumented variable from sre import * from sre import __all__ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Steve Alexander (stevea_zope) Date: 2005-07-08 23:52 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=492001 This is significant for programs that use an expensive import hook, and also use this kind of regex. I'm working around this by making my import hook return early for imports from sre. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1234985&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com