bpo-39394: Improve warning message in the re module (GH-31988)

A warning about inline flags not at the start of the regular
expression now contains the position of the flag.
(cherry picked from commit 4142961b9f)

Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
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Miss Islington (bot) 2022-03-19 07:09:45 -07:00 committed by GitHub
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3 changed files with 11 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -807,9 +807,11 @@ def _parse(source, state, verbose, nested, first=False):
if not first or subpattern: if not first or subpattern:
import warnings import warnings
warnings.warn( warnings.warn(
'Flags not at the start of the expression %r%s' % ( 'Flags not at the start of the expression %r%s'
' but at position %d' % (
source.string[:20], # truncate long regexes source.string[:20], # truncate long regexes
' (truncated)' if len(source.string) > 20 else '', ' (truncated)' if len(source.string) > 20 else '',
start,
), ),
DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=nested + 6 DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=nested + 6
) )

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@ -1444,7 +1444,8 @@ class ReTests(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertTrue(re.match(p, lower_char)) self.assertTrue(re.match(p, lower_char))
self.assertEqual( self.assertEqual(
str(warns.warnings[0].message), str(warns.warnings[0].message),
'Flags not at the start of the expression %r' % p 'Flags not at the start of the expression %r'
' but at position 1' % p
) )
self.assertEqual(warns.warnings[0].filename, __file__) self.assertEqual(warns.warnings[0].filename, __file__)
@ -1453,7 +1454,8 @@ class ReTests(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertTrue(re.match(p, lower_char)) self.assertTrue(re.match(p, lower_char))
self.assertEqual( self.assertEqual(
str(warns.warnings[0].message), str(warns.warnings[0].message),
'Flags not at the start of the expression %r (truncated)' % p[:20] 'Flags not at the start of the expression %r (truncated)'
' but at position 1' % p[:20]
) )
self.assertEqual(warns.warnings[0].filename, __file__) self.assertEqual(warns.warnings[0].filename, __file__)
@ -1465,7 +1467,8 @@ class ReTests(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertTrue(re.match(p, b'a')) self.assertTrue(re.match(p, b'a'))
self.assertEqual( self.assertEqual(
str(warns.warnings[0].message), str(warns.warnings[0].message),
'Flags not at the start of the expression %r' % p 'Flags not at the start of the expression %r'
' but at position 1' % p
) )
self.assertEqual(warns.warnings[0].filename, __file__) self.assertEqual(warns.warnings[0].filename, __file__)

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@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
A warning about inline flags not at the start of the regular expression now
contains the position of the flag.