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If it is undesirable to store this flag in a BSON regular expression, unset it first:</p> <div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">pattern</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">compile</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'.*'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">regex</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Regex</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">from_native</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">pattern</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">regex</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">flags</span> <span class="o">^=</span> <span class="n">re</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">UNICODE</span> <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">collection</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">insert</span><span class="p">({</span><span class="s1">'pattern'</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">regex</span><span class="p">})</span> </pre></div> </div> <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> <col class="field-name" /> <col class="field-body" /> <tbody valign="top"> <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first last simple"> <li><cite>regex</cite>: A regular expression object from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">re.compile()</span></code>.</li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class="admonition warning"> <p class="first admonition-title">Warning</p> <p class="last">Python regular expressions use a different syntax and different set of flags than MongoDB, which uses <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcre.org/">PCRE</a>. A regular expression retrieved from the server may not compile in Python, or may match a different set of strings in Python than when used in a MongoDB query.</p> </div> </dd></dl> <dl class="method"> <dt id="bson.regex.Regex.try_compile"> <code class="descname">try_compile</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#bson.regex.Regex.try_compile" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> <dd><p>Compile this <a class="reference internal" href="#bson.regex.Regex" title="bson.regex.Regex"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Regex</span></code></a> as a Python regular expression.</p> <div class="admonition warning"> <p class="first admonition-title">Warning</p> <p class="last">Python regular expressions use a different syntax and different set of flags than MongoDB, which uses <a class="reference external" href="http://www.pcre.org/">PCRE</a>. A regular expression retrieved from the server may not compile in Python, or may match a different set of strings in Python than when used in a MongoDB query. <a class="reference internal" href="#bson.regex.Regex.try_compile" title="bson.regex.Regex.try_compile"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">try_compile()</span></code></a> may raise <code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">re.error</span></code>.</p> </div> </dd></dl> </dd></dl> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar" role="navigation" aria-label="main navigation"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="raw_bson.html" title="previous chapter"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">raw_bson</span></code> – Tools for representing raw BSON documents.</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="son.html" title="next chapter"><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">son</span></code> – Tools for working with SON, an ordered mapping</a></p> <div role="note" aria-label="source link"> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../../_sources/api/bson/regex.rst.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> </div> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none" role="search"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <div class="searchformwrapper"> <form class="search" action="../../search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related" role="navigation" aria-label="related navigation"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="son.html" title="son – Tools for working with SON, an ordered mapping" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="raw_bson.html" title="raw_bson – Tools for representing raw BSON documents." >previous</a> |</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-0"><a href="../../index.html">PyMongo 3.7.2 documentation</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-1"><a href="../index.html" >API Documentation</a> »</li> <li class="nav-item nav-item-2"><a href="index.html" ><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bson</span></code> – BSON (Binary JSON) Encoding and Decoding</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer" role="contentinfo"> © Copyright MongoDB, Inc. 2008-present. 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