Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment:

Alex has a valid point in relation to PEP 399, since, like lzma, regex will be 
coming in under the "special permission" clause that allows the addition of C 
extension modules without pure Python equivalents. Unlike lzma, though, the new 
regex engine isn't a relatively simple wrapper around an existing library - 
supporting the new API features on other implementations is going to mean a 
substantial amount of work.

In practice, I expect that a pure Python implementation of a regular expression 
engine would only be fast enough to be usable on PyPy. So while we'd almost 
certainly accept a patch that added a parallel Python implementation, I doubt 
it would actually help Jython or IronPython all that much - they're probably 
going to need versions written in Java and C# to be effective (as I believe 
they already have for the re module).

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