Re: [Python-3000] re.LOCALE

2008-06-30 Thread Oleg Broytmann
On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 09:13:30PM +, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > Another question, about re.LOCALE. Its utility is dubious, and it's never used > in the stdlib (apart from the re tests themselves). What should we do: > - drop it entirely > - only allow it on bytes patterns (it doesn't make se

Re: [Python-3000] re.LOCALE

2008-06-29 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Another question, about re.LOCALE. Its utility is dubious, and it's never used > in the stdlib (apart from the re tests themselves). What should we do: > - drop it entirely > - only allow it on bytes patterns (it doesn't make sense on unicode strings) > - leave it as-is > ? I suggest to drop

[Python-3000] re.LOCALE

2008-06-29 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Another question, about re.LOCALE. Its utility is dubious, and it's never used in the stdlib (apart from the re tests themselves). What should we do: - drop it entirely - only allow it on bytes patterns (it doesn't make sense on unicode strings) - leave it as-is ?