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| author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-07-29 17:16:10 (GMT) |
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| committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2010-07-29 17:16:10 (GMT) |
| commit | 056cb93e7accc6cd21d7bec9d25a8d36b16dbb4a (patch) | |
| tree | fd95816c3949b3fb737d0cb8f824850063e2027b /Doc/library/string.rst | |
| parent | 1cec3e367c4cdead47eff7ec1f3d65c342daf92f (diff) | |
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#6630: allow customizing flags for compiling string.Template.idpattern.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/string.rst b/Doc/library/string.rst index 38c872d..68269b9 100644 --- a/Doc/library/string.rst +++ b/Doc/library/string.rst @@ -710,6 +710,14 @@ to parse template strings. To do this, you can override these class attributes: appropriate). The default value is the regular expression ``[_a-z][_a-z0-9]*``. +* *flags* -- The regular expression flags that will be applied when compiling + the regular expression used for recognizing substitutions. The default value + is ``re.IGNORECASE``. Note that ``re.VERBOSE`` will always be added to the + flags, so custom *idpattern*\ s must follow conventions for verbose regular + expressions. + + .. versionadded:: 3.2 + Alternatively, you can provide the entire regular expression pattern by overriding the class attribute *pattern*. If you do this, the value must be a regular expression object with four named capturing groups. The capturing |