[Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2? (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Jul 9 00:13:01 CEST 2010
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On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:54 AM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
You should be able to replace:
import re with: import regex as re and still have everything work the same, ie it's backwards compatible with re.
That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking what happens if you take an existing Python installation's re module, move it aside, and drop regex in its place as "re.py".
Doing that and then running Python's own test suite as well as the test suites of major Python applications and frameworks like Twisted, Zope and Django would provide solid evidence that the new version really is backwards compatible, rather than that it is meant to be backwards compatible.
Cheers, Nick.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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