Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka+cpyt...@gmail.com> added the comment:
Yes, it is deliberate. "/" and ":" do not have special meaning in regular expressions and do not need escaping. re.escape() now produces more human-readable result and works faster. ---------- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue38294> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
