[New-bugs-announce] [issue13599] Compiled regexes don't show all attributes in dir()

[Martin Häcker]

New submission from Martin Häcker <spamfaenger at gmx.de>:

When looking at a regex with dir() you don't get all available attributes - which is inconvenient as some very important ones (like .pattern) are not visible.

To demonstrate:

> import re
> re.compile('foo').pattern
'foo'
> dir(re.compile('foo'))

['__copy__',
 '__deepcopy__',
 'findall',
 'finditer',
 'match',
 'scanner',
 'search',
 'split',
 'sub',
 'subn']

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components: Regular Expressions
messages: 149428
nosy: dwt, ezio.melotti
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Compiled regexes don't show all attributes in dir()
versions: Python 2.7

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