Pieter-Jan Briers added the comment: I suppose it may be an implementation detail, though I wouldn't be amazed that had enum existed when re was written it'd have been used instead of constant integers at the time. Though I do suppose exposing it fully would add two ways to get the flags which I can see how it would be considered bad.
It's still useful for type checking though, and while I did make a PR to add it to typeshed, that still leaves it in an iffy state and I probably would not be the last person to be confused by it initially. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue31369> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
