On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:37:22 pm Eric Smith wrote: > > re2 comparison is interesting from the point of if it should be > > included in stdlib. > > Is "it" re2 or regex? I don't see having 2 regular expression engines > in the stdlib.
There's precedence though... the old regex engine and the new re engine were side-by-side for many years before regex was deprecated and finally removed in 2.5. Hypothetically, re2 could similarly be added to the standard library while re is deprecated. -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
