re.compile question

[Gordon McMillan]

Gregoire Welraeds writes:
> 
> Yes it's me again ;)
> How can I test that a re.compile has failed, Eg:  If i simply forget a (
> in my regular expression
> 
> --
> Life is not fair
> But the root password helps

The interpreter does, too.

>>> import re
>>> x = re.compile("(")
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
  File "D:\Programs\Python\Lib\re.py", line 79, in compile
    code=pcre_compile(pattern, flags, groupindex)
pcre.error: ('missing )', 1)
>>>

- Gordon