[Python-Dev] EuroPython Language Summit report (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at haypocalc.com
Tue Jun 28 16:06:58 CEST 2011

Le mardi 28 juin 2011 à 14:41 +0100, Michael Foord a écrit :

On 24/06/2011 15:55, R. David Murray wrote: > On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 10:52:40 +0200, Mark Dickinson<dickinsm at gmail.com> wrote: >> EuroPython 2011 Language Summit >> =============================== > [...] >> Unicode character classes is a particular need). [Subtopic: what needs >> to be done to get the new regex module into Python? Should it replace >> the existing module? What about backwards compatibility issues?] > I'm pretty sure regex has backward compatibility as a goal for just this > reason (so it can replace the current module). > The new regex library has some great improvements:

http://bugs.python.org/issue2636

This issue is open since April 2008, has also the longest list of attached files, and has a very long history. What is the status of the issue? I see that there is now a third party project on:

http://code.google.com/p/mrab-regex-hg/

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There is also the re2 library from Google and especially this project:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/re2/

"pyre2 is a Python extension that wraps Google's RE2 regular expression library.

This version of pyre2 is similar to the one you'd find at facebook's github repository except that the stated goal of this version is to be a drop-in replacement for the re module.)"

Victor

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