[Python-Dev] Curious comment in some old libraries

[Eric S. Raymond]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@effbot.org>:
> footnote: SRE is designed to work (and is being used)
> under 1.5.2.  since I'd rather not maintain two separate
> versions, I hope it's okay to back out of some of eric's
> changes...

Not a problem for me.
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