On 1/28/2017 9:43 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On 27 January 2017 at 22:24, MRAB
wrote: On 2017-01-27 17:03, Łukasz Langa wrote:
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.
I still think it could be a good candidate for a first "bundled" module, where we don't migrate it fully into the CPython development process, but *do* officially bless it and provide it by default in the form of a bundled wheel file (similar to what we do with pip).
So like pip, we would bundle the current version, install it in site-packages, and users who use it could upgrade as desired, even after x.y bugfix ends. What would be nice would be to have a short entry in the docs for bundled modules that links to the real doc, wherever it is. -- Terry Jan Reedy