On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:48:42 -0700 > Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Then there probably should be a from __future__ import for a while. > > If you are willing to use a "from __future__ import", why not simply > > import regex as re > > ? We're not Perl, we don't have built-in syntactic support for regular > expressions. > > Regards > If you add regex as "import regex", and the new regex module doesn't work out, regex might be harder to get rid of. from __future__ import is an established way of trying something for a while to see if it's going to work. EG: "from __future__ import re", where re is really the new module. But whatever.
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