[Python-Dev] SRE: what to do with undocumented attributes?

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Fredrik Lundh writes:
>btw, "pattern" doesn't make much sense in SRE -- who says
>the pattern object was created by re.compile?  guess I'll just
>set it to None in other cases (e.g. sregex, sreverb, sgema...)

Good point; I can imagine fabulously complex patterns assembled
programmatically, for which no summary could be made.  I guess there
could be another attribute that also gives the class (module?
function?) used to compile the pattern, but more likely, the pattern
attribute should be deprecated and eventually dropped.

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