On 2017-10-31 18:44, Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:41 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com <mailto:pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote:

    regex gets updated when the Unicode Consortium releases an update.


Is it a feature that that is more frequently than Python releases? There are other things in Python that must be updated whenever the UC releases an update, and they get treated as features (or perhaps as bugfixes, I'm not sure) but this means they generally don't get backported.

Here's a list of the updates to Unicode:

https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html

Roughly yearly.

Those still on Python 2.7, for example, are now 8 years behind re Unicode.

At least Python 3.6 is only 1 year/release behind, which is fine!
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