MRAB wrote:
Hi all,
I'm back on the regex module after doing other things and I'd like your
opinion on a number of matters:
Firstly, the current re module has a bug whereby it doesn't split on
zero-width matches. The BDFL has said that this behaviour should be
retained by default in case any existing software depends on it. My
question is: should my regex module still do this for Python 3?
Speaking personally, I'd like it to behave correctly, and Python 3 is
the version where backwards-compatibility is allowed to be broken.
Secondly, Python 2 is reaching the end of the line and Python 3 is the
future. Should I still release a version that works with Python 2? I'm
thinking that it could be confusing if new regex module did zero-width
splits correctly in Python 3 but not in Python 2. And also, should I
release it only for Python 3 as a 'carrot'?
Finally, the module allows some extra backslash escapes, eg \g<name>, in
the pattern. Should it treat ill-formed escapes, eg \g, as it would have
treated them in the re module?
I've just noticed something odd about the re module: the sub() method
doesn't take 'pos' or 'endpos' arguments. search() does; match() does;
findall() does(); finditer() does; but sub() doesn't. Maybe there has
never been a demand for it. (Nor split(), for that matter.)
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