On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:37:22 pm Eric Smith wrote: >> > re2 comparison is interesting from the point of if it should be >> > included in stdlib. >> >> Is "it" re2 or regex? I don't see having 2 regular expression engines >> in the stdlib. > > There's precedence though... the old regex engine and the new re engine > were side-by-side for many years before regex was deprecated and > finally removed in 2.5. Hypothetically, re2 could similarly be added to > the standard library while re is deprecated.
While I realize I'm not the target audience for this, there are a lot of things I'd like to see more in the stdlib than a second re engine. Geremy Condra _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
