[issue2636] Adding a new regex module (compatible with re)

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

As part of the PEP 408 discussions, Guido approved the addition of 'regex' in 3.3 (using that name, rather than as a drop-in replacement for re) [1,2]

That should greatly ease the backwards compatibility concerns, even if it isn't as transparent an upgrade path.

[1] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115961.html
[2] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/115962.html

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