Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> added the comment: As part of the PEP 408 discussions, Guido approved the addition of 'regex' in 3.3 (using that name, rather than as a drop-in replacement for re) [1,2]
That should greatly ease the backwards compatibility concerns, even if it isn't as transparent an upgrade path. [1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115961.html [2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115962.html ---------- nosy: +ncoghlan _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2636> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
