>>>>> "AK" == Andrew Koenig <ark@research.att.com> writes:
AK> How do I test for the third? I guess I need to know the name of
AK> the type of a compiled regular expression object. Hmmm... A
AK> quick scan through the documentation doesn't reveal it. So I do
AK> an experiment:
>>>> import re re.compile("foo")
AK> <_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x111018>
AK> Hmmm... This doesn't look good -- Can I really count on a
AK> compiled regular expression being an instance of
AK> _sre.SRE_Pattern for the future?
I'd put this at the module level:
compiled_re_type = type(re.compile(""))
Then you can use isistance() to test:
isinstance(re.compile("spam+"), compiled_re_type)
Jeremy
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