On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 12:24 PM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

On 2017-10-31 18:44, Guido van Rossum wrote:

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 11:41 AM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com <mailto:python@mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote:

regex gets updated when the Unicode Consortium releases an update.

Is it a feature that that is more frequently than Python releases? There are other things in Python that must be updated whenever the UC releases an update, and they get treated as features (or perhaps as bugfixes, I'm not sure) but this means they generally don't get backported.

Here's a list of the updates to Unicode:

https://www.unicode.org/versions/enumeratedversions.html

Roughly yearly.

Those still on Python 2.7, for example, are now 8 years behind re Unicode.

Frankly I consider that a feature of the 2.7 end-of-life planning. :-)

At least Python 3.6 is only 1 year/release behind, which is fine!

OK, so presumably that argument doesn't preclude inclusion in the 3.7 (or later) stdlib. I'm beginning to warm up to the idea again... Maybe we should just bite the bullet. Nick, what do you think? Is it worth a small PEP?

--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)