[Python-Dev] status of pre?

[Guido van Rossum]

>   Have we formulated a plan of action regarding PCRE and the pre
> module?  Are we planning to leave them in for another version, or is
> SRE considered sufficiently stable?

Hm.  It should disappear but I believe I've heard people say they were
focred to use it because of the recursion limit problems with SRE on
some platforms.

We could put a warning on using pre or pcre in 2.2, and remove it in
2.3, hoping that /F fixes the recursion limit problems in the mean
time (weren't those related to the backtracking implementation)?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)