[issue31672] string.Template should use re.ASCII flag

[Barry A. Warsaw]

Barry A. Warsaw <barry at python.org> added the comment:

On Oct 6, 2017, at 15:04, Serhiy Storchaka <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
> Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpython at gmail.com> added the comment:
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> Another solution (works in 3.6 too): set idpattern to r'(?-i:[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*)'.
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> This looks pretty weird, setting the re.IGNORECASE flag and then unsetting it. But it works, and don't break the user code that changes idpattern without changing flags.

Oh, I think I like that :)

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