On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 at 13:26 MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
On 2017-01-27 17:03, Łukasz Langa wrote:
On Jan 26, 2017, at 5:16 PM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com <mailto:python@mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote:
So, it seems as if regex already uses a better algorithm although I couldn't find any reference to any regex theoretical framework like
dfa,
nfa, thompson multiple-state simulation or something.
It still uses backtracking, like in the re module.
What’s the status of regex inclusion in the stdlib?
I'm not bothered about it. It's quite a bit bigger than the re module, and, anyway, keeping it as a third-party module gives me more freedom to make updates, which are available for a range of Python versions.
Maybe regex should get a mention in the docs like requests does under urllib.request?