On 29.01.17 22:30, Steve Holden wrote:
Why not declare re deprecated and remove it in Python 4? I am pretty sure everyone wants to keep re in all 3.x releases, but that support need not extend beyond. So Py4 would have no battery for re, but it would (should!) be common knowledge that regex was the go-to module for general-purpose pattern matching. If re has advantages in certain situations someone might upgrade the 3.x implementation and provide it as a 3rd-party module, though the effort involved would be significant, so someone would have to be motivated to keep it.
Regular expressions are used in a number of standard modules and scripts. Excluding them from the stdlib would require excluding or rewriting the large part of the stdlib.
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