On 12/4/2013 11:21 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 24/10/2013 22:47, Mark Lawrence wrote:
The new module is now five years old. PEP 429 Python 3.4 release
schedule has it listed under "Other proposed large-scale changes" but I
don't believe this is actually happening. Lots of issues on the bug
tracker have been closed as fixed in the new module, see issue 2636 for
more data. Some work is still being carried out on the old re module.
So where do we stand? Is the new module getting into Python 3.x, Python
4.y or what?
Good question. I hope so.
If no do all the old issues have to be reopened and
applied to the re module?
I would prefer not.
Who has to make the final decision on all of this?
Ultimately Guido, with a lot of input
Note that I've no direct interest as I rarely if ever use the little
perishers, I just find this situation bizarre.
It is definitely unfortunate and even embarrassing. At one time, the
hangup was a minor feature incompatibility between re and regex. Guido
was reluctant to make a switch that would occasionally break code. I
believe that this is fixed -- by deciding to call it regex rather then re.
My impression from
http://bugs.python.org/issue2636 Stage: patch review
and pydev discussion is that regex did not land in 3.4 because no one
did the rest of the needed review. I do not really know what needs to be
done next. Being coded in C does not help speed review.
And FTR I'll break Armed Forces Rule No. 1 and volunteer my own
pitifully poor servies if I can help take this forward, as I think it's
daft having issues marked as fixed on the bug tracker but the fix not
being available in the standard library, only on pypi.
Are you volunteering to list issues to be reopened, or to help with code
review?
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