28 Jun
2002
28 Jun
'02
3:42 p.m.
On Fri, Jun 28, 2002, David Abrahams wrote:
From: "Tim Peters" tim.one@comcast.net
OTOH, multiple attempts by multiple groups to steal Perl's regexp engine years ago fizzled out in a tarpit of frustration.
Oh, I had the impression that Python's re *was* pilfered Perl.
Thank Fredrik for a brilliant job of re-implementing Perl's regex syntax into something that I assume is maintainable (haven't looked at the code myself) *and* Unicode compliant.
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