[Python-Dev] PEP 332 revival in coordination with pep 349? [Was:Re: release plan for 2.5 ?]

[Fredrik Lundh]

Just van Rossum wrote:

> > If bytes support the buffer interface, we get another interesting
> > issue -- regular expressions over bytes. Brr.
>
> We already have that:
>
>   >>> import re, array
>   >>> re.search('\2', array.array('B', [1, 2, 3, 4])).group()
>   array('B', [2])
>   >>>
>
> Not sure whether to blame array or re, though...

SRE.  iirc, the design rationale was to support RE over mmap'ed regions.

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