Hi, I have a question regarding re module. # By the way I'm not in this list, so I'm sorry but please CC me.
I tried following code in Python shell using a regular expression. Why doesn't the result of dir(reg) have 'pattern', 'flags', and 'groupindex' although they exist as members of _sre.SRE_Pattern instance ? It sort of irritates me, because whenever I write Python code using a module which I'm not used to using, I often try Python shell with TAB complete to find out the member of module/instance. Tomohiro Kusumi ------------------------------------------------- Python 2.5 (r25:51908, May 16 2008, 13:41:55) [GCC 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-14)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import re >>> reg = re.compile(r"[0-9]+") >>> reg.pattern '[0-9]+' >>> reg.flags 0 >>> reg.groupindex {} >>> dir(reg) ['__copy__', '__deepcopy__', 'findall', 'finditer', 'match', 'scanner', 'search', 'split', 'sub', 'subn'] >>> reg.<TAB> reg.__copy__ reg.finditer reg.search reg.subn reg.__deepcopy__ reg.match reg.split reg.findall reg.scanner reg.sub -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list