[Python-ideas] Exposing regular expression bytecode

[Jonathan Goble]

Hello? Anyone? I'd really like to see this idea move forward, but I
need some comments for that.

Original message:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2016-February/038488.html

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:47 AM, Jonathan Goble <jcgoble3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 2:26 AM, Wes Turner <wes.turner at gmail.com> wrote:
>> the new 'regex' module (with a re compatability mode and unicode) may be the
>> place to find/add more debugging syms
>
> Thanks, but I'm already well aware of that module, as I'm already
> using it for another project of mine that requires some of its new
> features. But this proposal, I think, is simple enough that it would
> be worth doing for the built-in 're' modules. Also, the things that
> implementing it would enable, such as optimizers and especially
> debuggers, would be available to a much larger number of people if the
> built-in module supported them.
>
> I'm not really asking for much; just take an array already in the
> struct that represents the object, expose it as a public attribute,
> and write a simple 'dis'-like module to enable low-level programmatic
> analysis. Once that's available, third parties are likely to build on
> it from there; that's much less likely to happen if such tools only
> worked on a different regex module (albeit a great one) from PyPI and
> not on the built-in version.