On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:18:35 -0700 > Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: >> >> I can't say I liked how that transition was handled last time around. >> I really don't want to have to tell people "Oh, that bug is fixed but >> you have to use regex instead of re" and then a few years later have >> to tell them "Oh, we're deprecating regex, you should just use re". >> >> I'm really hoping someone has more actual technical understanding of >> re vs. regex and can give us some facts about the differences, rather >> than, frankly, FUD. > > 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??? -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
