Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Thank you for your patch Valentina. But it makes flags combinations not pickleable.
>>> import re, pickle >>> pickle.dumps(re.I|re.S, 3) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> _pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <enum 'SubFlag'>: attribute lookup SubFlag on sre_constants failed >>> pickle.dumps(re.I|re.S, 4) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> _pickle.PicklingError: Can't pickle <enum 'SubFlag'>: attribute lookup BaseFlags.__or__.<locals>.SubFlag on sre_constants failed And I'm afraid that creating new class in the "|" operator can affect performance. ---------- versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 2.7, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11957> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com