Re: [Python-Dev] _sre as part of python.dll

What is the reason for _sre.pyd being a separate DLL? On Unix, it is incorporated into the executable by default; regular expressions are central for Python and cannot be omitted.

Would anybody object if I change the Windows build process so that it stops having _sre as a separate target?

Let me turn this around. What advantage do you see to linking it statically? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)