[Python-Dev] what is happening with the regex module going into Python 3.3?

Mark Lawrence breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk
Sat Jun 2 02:37:18 CEST 2012


On 01/06/2012 18:27, Brett Cannon wrote:
> About the only thing I can think of from the language summit that we
> discussed doing for Python 3.3 that has not come about is accepting the
> regex module and getting it into the stdlib. Is this still being worked
> towards?
>

Umpteen versions of regex have been available on pypi for years. 
Umpteen bugs against the original re module have been fixed.  If regex 
can't now go into the standard library, what on earth can?

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Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.



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