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

[Devin Jeanpierre]

Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda at gmail.com> added the comment:

It'd be nice if we had some sort of representative benchmark for real-world uses of Python regexps. The JS guys have all pitched in to create such a thing for uses of regexps on thew web. I don't know of any such thing for Python.

I agree that a Python implementation wouldn't be useful for some cases. On the other hand, I believe it would be fine (or at least tolerable) for some others. I don't know the ratio between the two.

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