re module methods: flags(), pattern()

[Xah Lee]

Python re module has methods flags and pattern. How to use these
exactly?

e.g. i tried

print patternObj.flags()

and the error is some "int object is not callable".

newpattern=re.compile(ur'\w+',patternObj.flags())

also bad.

similar error for patternObj.pattern(). (and i suppose the same for
groupindex() )

thanks.

 Xah
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