On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:30:38 +0000 > Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >> Why not declare re deprecated and remove it in Python 4? > > Why deprecate and remove a library that's perfectly usable and > satisfactory for the vast majority of regular expression usage? It's > not like regex presents a radically different API... > > Do we really have to face another wave of stdlib bashing on this > mailing-list?
I agree with Antoine. And note that re has an active maintainer who has fixed a bunch of bugs and added some new features in the last few years. --Berker _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
