Am 04.06.2012 00:51, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis": >> That last statement basically suggests that something like regex would >> never be accepted until a CPython core developer was actually running >> into pain with the many flaws in the re module (especially when it comes >> to Unicode). I disagree with that. >> >> Per the language summit, I think we need to just do it. Put it in as re >> and rename the existing re module to sre. > > There are really places where "we" just doesn't work, even in a > community project. "We" will never commit anything to revision control. > Individual committers commit. > > So if *you* want to commit it, go ahead - I think there is general > approval for that. Take the praise when it works, and take the (likely) > blame for when it fails in some significant way, and then work on fixing > it. > >> The issue seems to be primarily one of "who is volunteering to do it?" > > I don't think anybody is, or will be for the coming years. I wish I had > trust into MRAB to stay around and work on this for the next ten years > (and I think the author of the regex module really needs to commit for > that timespan, see SRE's history), but I don't. So whoever commits the > change now is in charge, and will either have to work hard on fixing the > problems, or will be responsible for breaking Python 3 in a serious way.
Agreed with all of the above. (That's not a -1, but a warning.) Georg _______________________________________________ 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