bpo-30397: Add re.Pattern and re.Match. (#1646)

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/re.py b/Lib/re.py
index c194dba..d772979 100644
--- a/Lib/re.py
+++ b/Lib/re.py
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ This module exports the following functions:
     subn      Same as sub, but also return the number of substitutions made.
     split     Split a string by the occurrences of a pattern.
     findall   Find all occurrences of a pattern in a string.
-    finditer  Return an iterator yielding a match object for each match.
-    compile   Compile a pattern into a RegexObject.
+    finditer  Return an iterator yielding a Match object for each match.
+    compile   Compile a pattern into a Pattern object.
     purge     Clear the regular expression cache.
     escape    Backslash all non-alphanumerics in a string.
 
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ except ImportError:
 __all__ = [
     "match", "fullmatch", "search", "sub", "subn", "split",
     "findall", "finditer", "compile", "purge", "template", "escape",
-    "error", "A", "I", "L", "M", "S", "X", "U",
+    "error", "Pattern", "Match", "A", "I", "L", "M", "S", "X", "U",
     "ASCII", "IGNORECASE", "LOCALE", "MULTILINE", "DOTALL", "VERBOSE",
     "UNICODE",
 ]
@@ -175,17 +175,17 @@ error = sre_compile.error
 
 def match(pattern, string, flags=0):
     """Try to apply the pattern at the start of the string, returning
-    a match object, or None if no match was found."""
+    a Match object, or None if no match was found."""
     return _compile(pattern, flags).match(string)
 
 def fullmatch(pattern, string, flags=0):
     """Try to apply the pattern to all of the string, returning
-    a match object, or None if no match was found."""
+    a Match object, or None if no match was found."""
     return _compile(pattern, flags).fullmatch(string)
 
 def search(pattern, string, flags=0):
     """Scan through string looking for a match to the pattern, returning
-    a match object, or None if no match was found."""
+    a Match object, or None if no match was found."""
     return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
 
 def sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0):
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ def sub(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0):
     non-overlapping occurrences of the pattern in string by the
     replacement repl.  repl can be either a string or a callable;
     if a string, backslash escapes in it are processed.  If it is
-    a callable, it's passed the match object and must return
+    a callable, it's passed the Match object and must return
     a replacement string to be used."""
     return _compile(pattern, flags).sub(repl, string, count)
 
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ def subn(pattern, repl, string, count=0, flags=0):
     string by the replacement repl.  number is the number of
     substitutions that were made. repl can be either a string or a
     callable; if a string, backslash escapes in it are processed.
-    If it is a callable, it's passed the match object and must
+    If it is a callable, it's passed the Match object and must
     return a replacement string to be used."""
     return _compile(pattern, flags).subn(repl, string, count)
 
@@ -230,13 +230,13 @@ def findall(pattern, string, flags=0):
 
 def finditer(pattern, string, flags=0):
     """Return an iterator over all non-overlapping matches in the
-    string.  For each match, the iterator returns a match object.
+    string.  For each match, the iterator returns a Match object.
 
     Empty matches are included in the result."""
     return _compile(pattern, flags).finditer(string)
 
 def compile(pattern, flags=0):
-    "Compile a regular expression pattern, returning a pattern object."
+    "Compile a regular expression pattern, returning a Pattern object."
     return _compile(pattern, flags)
 
 def purge():
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ def purge():
     _compile_repl.cache_clear()
 
 def template(pattern, flags=0):
-    "Compile a template pattern, returning a pattern object"
+    "Compile a template pattern, returning a Pattern object"
     return _compile(pattern, flags|T)
 
 # SPECIAL_CHARS
@@ -264,13 +264,14 @@ def escape(pattern):
         pattern = str(pattern, 'latin1')
         return pattern.translate(_special_chars_map).encode('latin1')
 
+Pattern = type(sre_compile.compile('', 0))
+Match = type(sre_compile.compile('', 0).match(''))
+
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # internals
 
 _cache = OrderedDict()
 
-_pattern_type = type(sre_compile.compile("", 0))
-
 _MAXCACHE = 512
 def _compile(pattern, flags):
     # internal: compile pattern
@@ -278,7 +279,7 @@ def _compile(pattern, flags):
         return _cache[type(pattern), pattern, flags]
     except KeyError:
         pass
-    if isinstance(pattern, _pattern_type):
+    if isinstance(pattern, Pattern):
         if flags:
             raise ValueError(
                 "cannot process flags argument with a compiled pattern")
@@ -301,12 +302,12 @@ def _compile_repl(repl, pattern):
     return sre_parse.parse_template(repl, pattern)
 
 def _expand(pattern, match, template):
-    # internal: match.expand implementation hook
+    # internal: Match.expand implementation hook
     template = sre_parse.parse_template(template, pattern)
     return sre_parse.expand_template(template, match)
 
 def _subx(pattern, template):
-    # internal: pattern.sub/subn implementation helper
+    # internal: Pattern.sub/subn implementation helper
     template = _compile_repl(template, pattern)
     if not template[0] and len(template[1]) == 1:
         # literal replacement
@@ -322,7 +323,7 @@ import copyreg
 def _pickle(p):
     return _compile, (p.pattern, p.flags)
 
-copyreg.pickle(_pattern_type, _pickle, _compile)
+copyreg.pickle(Pattern, _pickle, _compile)
 
 # --------------------------------------------------------------------
 # experimental stuff (see python-dev discussions for details)