# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
# Date 1532816370 -7200
# Node ID cc8b25a249cb453b53890b45fff7680bf7c94b7e
# Parent  bf23f3f334c9ca39bdd498621cb0b7a39a17b13c
Exposed individual pattern compilation.

diff -r bf23f3f334c9 -r cc8b25a249cb moinformat/parsers/common.py
--- a/moinformat/parsers/common.py	Sat Jul 28 12:49:22 2018 +0200
+++ b/moinformat/parsers/common.py	Sun Jul 29 00:19:30 2018 +0200
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@
     return "%s{%s,%s}" % (s, min is not None and min or "",
                              max is not None and max or "")
 
+def get_pattern(s):
+
+    "Return a compiled regular expression for the given pattern 's'."
+
+    return re.compile(s, re.UNICODE | re.MULTILINE)
+
 def get_patterns(syntax):
 
     """
@@ -77,7 +83,7 @@
     for name, value in syntax.items():
         value = value.replace(r"\N", ws_excl_nl)
         value = value.replace(r"\Q", quotes)
-        patterns[name] = re.compile(value, re.UNICODE | re.MULTILINE)
+        patterns[name] = get_pattern(value)
     return patterns
 
 def get_subset(d, keys):