Matthew Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: This patch is now based on Python 2.6rc2.
I've reduced the number of macros and used functions instead, provided that it didn't cost much in terms of speed. In many cases it should be faster than the current release, and at worst no slower. More speed tests and tweaks needed. BTW, the impression I got was that look-behind was fixed width because the matching operations could only match forwards through the text, so in order to look behind it had to step back through the text and then match forwards. For simplicity and speed it insisted that it must be able to determine the size of the step beforehand, hence fixed-width. My addition was to add matching operations which worked matched backwards and also reverse the order of the matching for look-behinds, an idea which I got from a page on how it could be implemented in Perl 6! Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file11530/regex_2.6rc2.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3825> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
