On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:18:35 -0700 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > > I can't say I liked how that transition was handled last time around. > I really don't want to have to tell people "Oh, that bug is fixed but > you have to use regex instead of re" and then a few years later have > to tell them "Oh, we're deprecating regex, you should just use re". > > I'm really hoping someone has more actual technical understanding of > re vs. regex and can give us some facts about the differences, rather > than, frankly, FUD.
The best way would be to contact the author, Matthew Barnett, or to ask on the tracker on http://bugs.python.org/issue2636. He has been quite willing to answer such questions in the past, AFAIR. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
