Bug#1026520: reprotest: FTBFS: AttributeError: module 're' has no attribute 'sre_parse'

[Chris Lamb]

reassign 1026520 python-rstr
merge 1026569 1026520
affects 1026520 diffoscope
thanks

Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, your package failed to build
> on amd64.

Quite so. However, I think the problem is elsewhere:

>>   File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/rstr/xeger.py", line 63, in xeger
>>     parsed = re.sre_parse.parse(pattern)
>>              ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> AttributeError: module 're' has no attribute 'sre_parse'

I believe this is #1026569 in python-rstr.