On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:25:56 -0700 Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > > On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:48:42 -0700 > > Dan Stromberg <drsali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Then there probably should be a from __future__ import for a while. > > > > If you are willing to use a "from __future__ import", why not simply > > > > import regex as re > > > > ? We're not Perl, we don't have built-in syntactic support for regular > > expressions. > > > > Regards > > > > If you add regex as "import regex", and the new regex module doesn't work > out, regex might be harder to get rid of. from __future__ import is an > established way of trying something for a while to see if it's going to > work.
That's an interesting idea. This way, integrating the new module would be a less risky move, since if it gives us too many problems, we could back out our decision in the next feature release. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
