Where is _sre.SRE_Match?

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On Wednesday, February 7, 2018 at 5:20:42 PM UTC, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 4:15 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I see _sre.SRE_Match is returned by re.match. But I don't find where
> > it is defined. Does anybody know how to get its help page within
> > python command line? Thanks.
> >
> >>>> import re
> >>>> m = re.match('a', 'abc')
> >>>> print type(m)
> > <type '_sre.SRE_Match'>
> >>>> _sre.SRE_Match
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> > NameError: name '_sre' is not defined
> >
> 
> You can "import _sre" if you want access to that module, but the
> leading underscore is a strong indication that this isn't something
> you should be looking at - it's an implementation detail.
> 
> Python 3 makes this type public:
> 
> >>> import re
> >>> re.match('a', 'abc')
> <re.Match object; span=(0, 1), match='a'>
> >>> re.Match
> <class 're.Match'>
> 
> So if you truly need to examine this type, I suggest switching to a
> newer Python.
> 
> ChrisA

I'm confused:-

Python 3.6.3 (default, Oct  3 2017, 21:45:48) 
[GCC 7.2.0] on linux
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>>> import re
>>> re.match('a', 'abc')
<_sre.SRE_Match object; span=(0, 1), match='a'>
>>> 

Perhaps not, https://bugs.python.org/issue30397 so 3.7 only.

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Mark Lawrence.