[Python-Dev] Should we move to replace re with regex? (original) (raw)

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Aug 27 02:03:21 CEST 2011

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:47:21 -0700 Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> The best way would be to contact the author, Matthew Barnett,

I had added him to the beginning of this thread but someone took him off. > or to ask > on the tracker on http://bugs.python.org/issue2636. He has been quite > willing to answer such questions in the past, AFAIR. So, that issue is about something called "regexp". AFAIK Matthew (MRAB) wrote something called "regex" (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex). Are they two different things???

No, it's the same. The source is at https://code.google.com/p/mrab-regex-hg/, btw.

Regards

Antoine.

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