[Python-ideas] Proposed convenience functions for re module

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Robert Kern wrote:
> On 2009-07-23 16:48, Gerald Britton wrote:
>> So, in 2003 it was discussed but considered not ready for prime time.
>> If six years is not enough to get it ready, I can't imagine what would
>> be.
> 
> I'm pretty sure that no one has worked on it.
> 
I worked on it in issue #2636 (turning unnamed capture groups into
non-capture groups and forbidding group references and named groups) and
also added a generator method.