diff --git a/Lib/sre_compile.py b/Lib/sre_compile.py
index 1b3e9f8..da422a9 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_compile.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_compile.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 import _sre
 import sre_parse
 from sre_constants import *
-from _sre import MAXREPEAT
 
 assert _sre.MAGIC == MAGIC, "SRE module mismatch"
 
@@ -38,65 +37,65 @@
     for op, av in pattern:
         if op in LITERAL_CODES:
             if flags & SRE_FLAG_IGNORECASE:
-                emit(OPCODES[OP_IGNORE[op]])
+                emit(OP_IGNORE[op])
                 emit(_sre.getlower(av, flags))
             else:
-                emit(OPCODES[op])
+                emit(op)
                 emit(av)
         elif op is IN:
             if flags & SRE_FLAG_IGNORECASE:
-                emit(OPCODES[OP_IGNORE[op]])
+                emit(OP_IGNORE[op])
                 def fixup(literal, flags=flags):
                     return _sre.getlower(literal, flags)
             else:
-                emit(OPCODES[op])
+                emit(op)
                 fixup = None
             skip = _len(code); emit(0)
             _compile_charset(av, flags, code, fixup)
             code[skip] = _len(code) - skip
         elif op is ANY:
             if flags & SRE_FLAG_DOTALL:
-                emit(OPCODES[ANY_ALL])
+                emit(ANY_ALL)
             else:
-                emit(OPCODES[ANY])
+                emit(ANY)
         elif op in REPEATING_CODES:
             if flags & SRE_FLAG_TEMPLATE:
                 raise error("internal: unsupported template operator")
             elif _simple(av) and op is not REPEAT:
                 if op is MAX_REPEAT:
-                    emit(OPCODES[REPEAT_ONE])
+                    emit(REPEAT_ONE)
                 else:
-                    emit(OPCODES[MIN_REPEAT_ONE])
+                    emit(MIN_REPEAT_ONE)
                 skip = _len(code); emit(0)
                 emit(av[0])
                 emit(av[1])
                 _compile(code, av[2], flags)
-                emit(OPCODES[SUCCESS])
+                emit(SUCCESS)
                 code[skip] = _len(code) - skip
             else:
-                emit(OPCODES[REPEAT])
+                emit(REPEAT)
                 skip = _len(code); emit(0)
                 emit(av[0])
                 emit(av[1])
                 _compile(code, av[2], flags)
                 code[skip] = _len(code) - skip
                 if op is MAX_REPEAT:
-                    emit(OPCODES[MAX_UNTIL])
+                    emit(MAX_UNTIL)
                 else:
-                    emit(OPCODES[MIN_UNTIL])
+                    emit(MIN_UNTIL)
         elif op is SUBPATTERN:
             if av[0]:
-                emit(OPCODES[MARK])
+                emit(MARK)
                 emit((av[0]-1)*2)
             # _compile_info(code, av[1], flags)
             _compile(code, av[1], flags)
             if av[0]:
-                emit(OPCODES[MARK])
+                emit(MARK)
                 emit((av[0]-1)*2+1)
         elif op in SUCCESS_CODES:
-            emit(OPCODES[op])
+            emit(op)
         elif op in ASSERT_CODES:
-            emit(OPCODES[op])
+            emit(op)
             skip = _len(code); emit(0)
             if av[0] >= 0:
                 emit(0) # look ahead
@@ -106,57 +105,57 @@
                     raise error("look-behind requires fixed-width pattern")
                 emit(lo) # look behind
             _compile(code, av[1], flags)
-            emit(OPCODES[SUCCESS])
+            emit(SUCCESS)
             code[skip] = _len(code) - skip
         elif op is CALL:
-            emit(OPCODES[op])
+            emit(op)
             skip = _len(code); emit(0)
             _compile(code, av, flags)
-            emit(OPCODES[SUCCESS])
+            emit(SUCCESS)
             code[skip] = _len(code) - skip
         elif op is AT:
-            emit(OPCODES[op])
+            emit(op)
             if flags & SRE_FLAG_MULTILINE:
                 av = AT_MULTILINE.get(av, av)
             if flags & SRE_FLAG_LOCALE:
                 av = AT_LOCALE.get(av, av)
             elif flags & SRE_FLAG_UNICODE:
                 av = AT_UNICODE.get(av, av)
-            emit(ATCODES[av])
+            emit(av)
         elif op is BRANCH:
-            emit(OPCODES[op])
+            emit(op)
             tail = []
             tailappend = tail.append
             for av in av[1]:
                 skip = _len(code); emit(0)
                 # _compile_info(code, av, flags)
                 _compile(code, av, flags)
-                emit(OPCODES[JUMP])
+                emit(JUMP)
                 tailappend(_len(code)); emit(0)
                 code[skip] = _len(code) - skip
             emit(0) # end of branch
             for tail in tail:
                 code[tail] = _len(code) - tail
         elif op is CATEGORY:
-            emit(OPCODES[op])
+            emit(op)
             if flags & SRE_FLAG_LOCALE:
                 av = CH_LOCALE[av]
             elif flags & SRE_FLAG_UNICODE:
                 av = CH_UNICODE[av]
-            emit(CHCODES[av])
+            emit(av)
         elif op is GROUPREF:
             if flags & SRE_FLAG_IGNORECASE:
-                emit(OPCODES[OP_IGNORE[op]])
+                emit(OP_IGNORE[op])
             else:
-                emit(OPCODES[op])
+                emit(op)
             emit(av-1)
         elif op is GROUPREF_EXISTS:
-            emit(OPCODES[op])
+            emit(op)
             emit(av[0]-1)
             skipyes = _len(code); emit(0)
             _compile(code, av[1], flags)
             if av[2]:
-                emit(OPCODES[JUMP])
+                emit(JUMP)
                 skipno = _len(code); emit(0)
                 code[skipyes] = _len(code) - skipyes + 1
                 _compile(code, av[2], flags)
@@ -170,7 +169,7 @@
     # compile charset subprogram
     emit = code.append
     for op, av in _optimize_charset(charset, fixup):
-        emit(OPCODES[op])
+        emit(op)
         if op is NEGATE:
             pass
         elif op is LITERAL:
@@ -184,14 +183,14 @@
             code.extend(av)
         elif op is CATEGORY:
             if flags & SRE_FLAG_LOCALE:
-                emit(CHCODES[CH_LOCALE[av]])
+                emit(CH_LOCALE[av])
             elif flags & SRE_FLAG_UNICODE:
-                emit(CHCODES[CH_UNICODE[av]])
+                emit(CH_UNICODE[av])
             else:
-                emit(CHCODES[av])
+                emit(av)
         else:
             raise error("internal: unsupported set operator")
-    emit(OPCODES[FAILURE])
+    emit(FAILURE)
 
 def _optimize_charset(charset, fixup):
     # internal: optimize character set
@@ -414,7 +413,7 @@
 ##         print "*** CHARSET", charset
     # add an info block
     emit = code.append
-    emit(OPCODES[INFO])
+    emit(INFO)
     skip = len(code); emit(0)
     # literal flag
     mask = 0
@@ -460,7 +459,7 @@
     # compile the pattern
     _compile(code, p.data, flags)
 
-    code.append(OPCODES[SUCCESS])
+    code.append(SUCCESS)
 
     return code
 
@@ -475,7 +474,7 @@
 
     code = _code(p, flags)
 
-    # print code
+    # print(code)
 
     # map in either direction
     groupindex = p.pattern.groupdict
diff --git a/Lib/sre_constants.py b/Lib/sre_constants.py
index 8296ecd..7480bf3 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_constants.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_constants.py
@@ -23,138 +23,81 @@
 class error(Exception):
     pass
 
+
+class _NamedIntConstant(int):
+    def __new__(cls, value, name):
+        self = super(_NamedIntConstant, cls).__new__(cls, value)
+        self.name = name
+        return self
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.name
+
+    __repr__ = __str__
+
+MAXREPEAT = _NamedIntConstant(MAXREPEAT, 'MAXREPEAT')
+
+def _makecodes(names):
+    names = names.strip().split()
+    items = [_NamedIntConstant(i, name) for i, name in enumerate(names)]
+    globals().update({item.name: item for item in items})
+    return items
+
 # operators
+# failure=0 success=1 (just because it looks better that way :-)
+OPCODES = _makecodes("""
+    FAILURE SUCCESS
 
-FAILURE = "failure"
-SUCCESS = "success"
+    ANY ANY_ALL
+    ASSERT ASSERT_NOT
+    AT
+    BRANCH
+    CALL
+    CATEGORY
+    CHARSET BIGCHARSET
+    GROUPREF GROUPREF_EXISTS GROUPREF_IGNORE
+    IN IN_IGNORE
+    INFO
+    JUMP
+    LITERAL LITERAL_IGNORE
+    MARK
+    MAX_UNTIL
+    MIN_UNTIL
+    NOT_LITERAL NOT_LITERAL_IGNORE
+    NEGATE
+    RANGE
+    REPEAT
+    REPEAT_ONE
+    SUBPATTERN
+    MIN_REPEAT_ONE
+    RANGE_IGNORE
 
-ANY = "any"
-ANY_ALL = "any_all"
-ASSERT = "assert"
-ASSERT_NOT = "assert_not"
-AT = "at"
-BIGCHARSET = "bigcharset"
-BRANCH = "branch"
-CALL = "call"
-CATEGORY = "category"
-CHARSET = "charset"
-GROUPREF = "groupref"
-GROUPREF_IGNORE = "groupref_ignore"
-GROUPREF_EXISTS = "groupref_exists"
-IN = "in"
-IN_IGNORE = "in_ignore"
-INFO = "info"
-JUMP = "jump"
-LITERAL = "literal"
-LITERAL_IGNORE = "literal_ignore"
-MARK = "mark"
-MAX_REPEAT = "max_repeat"
-MAX_UNTIL = "max_until"
-MIN_REPEAT = "min_repeat"
-MIN_UNTIL = "min_until"
-NEGATE = "negate"
-NOT_LITERAL = "not_literal"
-NOT_LITERAL_IGNORE = "not_literal_ignore"
-RANGE = "range"
-RANGE_IGNORE = "range_ignore"
-REPEAT = "repeat"
-REPEAT_ONE = "repeat_one"
-SUBPATTERN = "subpattern"
-MIN_REPEAT_ONE = "min_repeat_one"
+    MIN_REPEAT MAX_REPEAT
+""")
+del OPCODES[-2:] # remove MIN_REPEAT and MAX_REPEAT
 
 # positions
-AT_BEGINNING = "at_beginning"
-AT_BEGINNING_LINE = "at_beginning_line"
-AT_BEGINNING_STRING = "at_beginning_string"
-AT_BOUNDARY = "at_boundary"
-AT_NON_BOUNDARY = "at_non_boundary"
-AT_END = "at_end"
-AT_END_LINE = "at_end_line"
-AT_END_STRING = "at_end_string"
-AT_LOC_BOUNDARY = "at_loc_boundary"
-AT_LOC_NON_BOUNDARY = "at_loc_non_boundary"
-AT_UNI_BOUNDARY = "at_uni_boundary"
-AT_UNI_NON_BOUNDARY = "at_uni_non_boundary"
+ATCODES = _makecodes("""
+    AT_BEGINNING AT_BEGINNING_LINE AT_BEGINNING_STRING
+    AT_BOUNDARY AT_NON_BOUNDARY
+    AT_END AT_END_LINE AT_END_STRING
+    AT_LOC_BOUNDARY AT_LOC_NON_BOUNDARY
+    AT_UNI_BOUNDARY AT_UNI_NON_BOUNDARY
+""")
 
 # categories
-CATEGORY_DIGIT = "category_digit"
-CATEGORY_NOT_DIGIT = "category_not_digit"
-CATEGORY_SPACE = "category_space"
-CATEGORY_NOT_SPACE = "category_not_space"
-CATEGORY_WORD = "category_word"
-CATEGORY_NOT_WORD = "category_not_word"
-CATEGORY_LINEBREAK = "category_linebreak"
-CATEGORY_NOT_LINEBREAK = "category_not_linebreak"
-CATEGORY_LOC_WORD = "category_loc_word"
-CATEGORY_LOC_NOT_WORD = "category_loc_not_word"
-CATEGORY_UNI_DIGIT = "category_uni_digit"
-CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_DIGIT = "category_uni_not_digit"
-CATEGORY_UNI_SPACE = "category_uni_space"
-CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_SPACE = "category_uni_not_space"
-CATEGORY_UNI_WORD = "category_uni_word"
-CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_WORD = "category_uni_not_word"
-CATEGORY_UNI_LINEBREAK = "category_uni_linebreak"
-CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_LINEBREAK = "category_uni_not_linebreak"
+CHCODES = _makecodes("""
+    CATEGORY_DIGIT CATEGORY_NOT_DIGIT
+    CATEGORY_SPACE CATEGORY_NOT_SPACE
+    CATEGORY_WORD CATEGORY_NOT_WORD
+    CATEGORY_LINEBREAK CATEGORY_NOT_LINEBREAK
+    CATEGORY_LOC_WORD CATEGORY_LOC_NOT_WORD
+    CATEGORY_UNI_DIGIT CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_DIGIT
+    CATEGORY_UNI_SPACE CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_SPACE
+    CATEGORY_UNI_WORD CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_WORD
+    CATEGORY_UNI_LINEBREAK CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_LINEBREAK
+""")
 
-OPCODES = [
-
-    # failure=0 success=1 (just because it looks better that way :-)
-    FAILURE, SUCCESS,
-
-    ANY, ANY_ALL,
-    ASSERT, ASSERT_NOT,
-    AT,
-    BRANCH,
-    CALL,
-    CATEGORY,
-    CHARSET, BIGCHARSET,
-    GROUPREF, GROUPREF_EXISTS, GROUPREF_IGNORE,
-    IN, IN_IGNORE,
-    INFO,
-    JUMP,
-    LITERAL, LITERAL_IGNORE,
-    MARK,
-    MAX_UNTIL,
-    MIN_UNTIL,
-    NOT_LITERAL, NOT_LITERAL_IGNORE,
-    NEGATE,
-    RANGE,
-    REPEAT,
-    REPEAT_ONE,
-    SUBPATTERN,
-    MIN_REPEAT_ONE,
-    RANGE_IGNORE,
-
-]
-
-ATCODES = [
-    AT_BEGINNING, AT_BEGINNING_LINE, AT_BEGINNING_STRING, AT_BOUNDARY,
-    AT_NON_BOUNDARY, AT_END, AT_END_LINE, AT_END_STRING,
-    AT_LOC_BOUNDARY, AT_LOC_NON_BOUNDARY, AT_UNI_BOUNDARY,
-    AT_UNI_NON_BOUNDARY
-]
-
-CHCODES = [
-    CATEGORY_DIGIT, CATEGORY_NOT_DIGIT, CATEGORY_SPACE,
-    CATEGORY_NOT_SPACE, CATEGORY_WORD, CATEGORY_NOT_WORD,
-    CATEGORY_LINEBREAK, CATEGORY_NOT_LINEBREAK, CATEGORY_LOC_WORD,
-    CATEGORY_LOC_NOT_WORD, CATEGORY_UNI_DIGIT, CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_DIGIT,
-    CATEGORY_UNI_SPACE, CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_SPACE, CATEGORY_UNI_WORD,
-    CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_WORD, CATEGORY_UNI_LINEBREAK,
-    CATEGORY_UNI_NOT_LINEBREAK
-]
-
-def makedict(list):
-    d = {}
-    i = 0
-    for item in list:
-        d[item] = i
-        i = i + 1
-    return d
-
-OPCODES = makedict(OPCODES)
-ATCODES = makedict(ATCODES)
-CHCODES = makedict(CHCODES)
 
 # replacement operations for "ignore case" mode
 OP_IGNORE = {
@@ -220,9 +163,9 @@
 
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     def dump(f, d, prefix):
-        items = sorted(d.items(), key=lambda a: a[1])
-        for k, v in items:
-            f.write("#define %s_%s %s\n" % (prefix, k.upper(), v))
+        items = sorted(d)
+        for item in items:
+            f.write("#define %s_%s %d\n" % (prefix, item, item))
     f = open("sre_constants.h", "w")
     f.write("""\
 /*
diff --git a/Lib/sre_parse.py b/Lib/sre_parse.py
index edc3ff1..768ed79 100644
--- a/Lib/sre_parse.py
+++ b/Lib/sre_parse.py
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 # XXX: show string offset and offending character for all errors
 
 from sre_constants import *
-from _sre import MAXREPEAT
 
 SPECIAL_CHARS = ".\\[{()*+?^$|"
 REPEAT_CHARS = "*+?{"
@@ -103,24 +102,24 @@
         nl = True
         seqtypes = (tuple, list)
         for op, av in self.data:
-            print(level*"  " + op, end='')
+            print(level*"  " + str(op), end='')
             if op == IN:
                 # member sublanguage
                 print()
                 for op, a in av:
-                    print((level+1)*"  " + op, a)
+                    print((level+1)*"  " + str(op), a)
             elif op == BRANCH:
                 print()
                 for i, a in enumerate(av[1]):
                     if i:
-                        print(level*"  " + "or")
+                        print(level*"  " + "OR")
                     a.dump(level+1)
             elif op == GROUPREF_EXISTS:
                 condgroup, item_yes, item_no = av
                 print('', condgroup)
                 item_yes.dump(level+1)
                 if item_no:
-                    print(level*"  " + "else")
+                    print(level*"  " + "ELSE")
                     item_no.dump(level+1)
             elif isinstance(av, seqtypes):
                 nl = False
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index 4f7e162..8baf3b4 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -1285,22 +1285,22 @@
         with captured_stdout() as out:
             re.compile(pat, re.DEBUG)
         dump = '''\
-subpattern 1
-  literal 46
-subpattern None
-  branch
-    in
-      literal 99
-      literal 104
-  or
-    literal 112
-    literal 121
-subpattern None
-  groupref_exists 1
-    at at_end
-  else
-    literal 58
-    literal 32
+SUBPATTERN 1
+  LITERAL 46
+SUBPATTERN None
+  BRANCH
+    IN
+      LITERAL 99
+      LITERAL 104
+  OR
+    LITERAL 112
+    LITERAL 121
+SUBPATTERN None
+  GROUPREF_EXISTS 1
+    AT AT_END
+  ELSE
+    LITERAL 58
+    LITERAL 32
 '''
         self.assertEqual(out.getvalue(), dump)
         # Debug output is output again even a second time (bypassing