Feature or enhancement

I would like to access parse_template to be able to eagerly validate that a regex replacement template is valid.

I'm using this in my python-based text editor to do find and replace. Currently I am reaching into sre_parse to get parse_template (which used to be a public-named module but was deprecated in 3.11)

I suspect this could be as simple as exposing parse_template -- my code doesn't actually care about the return value, simply whether it raises an exception or not

Linked PRs

• gh-105636: Add re.Pattern.compile_template() #135992