Guido van Rossum added the comment: But who says this isn't intended? I don't know why it was done this way, but the following reasoning might apply: we want to have a stable API for unpickling compiled regexps, but we want to be able to evolve the re.compile() API. Just the fact that '_compile' starts with an underscore doesn't mean that it may involve -- in fact, the fact that it is used by pickles says the opposite. Therefore I think the patch makes things worse (tying the pickle format to the public re.compile() method).
At best we should add a comment to _compile explaining that its API is constrained by pickle backward compatibility. ---------- nosy: +gvanrossum resolution: -> not a bug status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue22416> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
