On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:00:31 +0200 "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> 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". > > No, you tell them: "If you want Unicode 6 semantics, use regex, > if you're fine with Unicode 2.0/3.0 semantics, use re". After all, > it's not like re suddenly stopped working :-)
It has a whole lot of new features in addition to better unicode support. See for yourself: https://code.google.com/p/mrab-regex-hg/wiki/GeneralDetails > Perhaps we could have a summer of code student do a review and > analysis to get familiar with the code and then have at least > two developers know the code well enough to support it for > a while. I'm not sure a GSoC student would be the best candidate to do a review matching our expectations. 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
