#6630: allow customizing flags for compiling string.Template.idpattern.

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Georg Brandl 2010-07-29 17:16:10 +00:00
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@ -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