[Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Tue Jul 13 16:35:44 CEST 2010

On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:20:23 +0100 Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:

On 13/07/2010 15:17, Reid Kleckner wrote: > On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Nick Coghlan<ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: > >> MRAB's module offers a superset of re's features rather than a subset >> though, so once it has had more of a chance to bake on PyPI it may be >> worth another look. >> > I feel like the new module is designed to replace the current re > module, and shouldn't need to spend time in PyPI. A faster regex > library isn't going to motivate users to add external dependencies to > their projects. > > If the backwards compatibility issues can be addressed and MRAB is willing to remain as maintainer then the advantages seem well worth it to me.

To me as well. The code needs a full review before integrating, though.

Regards

Antoine.

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