# public symbols

__all__ = [

"match", "fullmatch", "search", "sub", "subn", "split",

"findall", "finditer", "compile", "purge", "template", "escape",

"findall", "finditer", "compile", "purge", "escape",

"error", "Pattern", "Match", "A", "I", "L", "M", "S", "X", "U",

"ASCII", "IGNORECASE", "LOCALE", "MULTILINE", "DOTALL", "VERBOSE",

"UNICODE", "NOFLAG", "RegexFlag",

MULTILINE = M = _compiler.SRE_FLAG_MULTILINE # make anchors look for newline

DOTALL = S = _compiler.SRE_FLAG_DOTALL # make dot match newline

VERBOSE = X = _compiler.SRE_FLAG_VERBOSE # ignore whitespace and comments

# sre extensions (experimental, don't rely on these)

TEMPLATE = T = _compiler.SRE_FLAG_TEMPLATE # disable backtracking

DEBUG = _compiler.SRE_FLAG_DEBUG # dump pattern after compilation

__str__ = object.__str__

_numeric_repr_ = hex

_cache.clear()

_compile_repl.cache_clear()

def template(pattern, flags=0):

"Compile a template pattern, returning a Pattern object"

return _compile(pattern, flags|T)

# SPECIAL_CHARS

# closing ')', '}' and ']'

# '-' (a range in character set)