[Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2?

[geremy condra]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 7:42 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:37:22 pm Eric Smith wrote:
>> > re2 comparison is interesting from the point of if it should be
>> > included in stdlib.
>>
>> Is "it" re2 or regex? I don't see having 2 regular expression engines
>> in the stdlib.
>
> There's precedence though... the old regex engine and the new re engine
> were side-by-side for many years before regex was deprecated and
> finally removed in 2.5. Hypothetically, re2 could similarly be added to
> the standard library while re is deprecated.

While I realize I'm not the target audience for this, there are a lot
of things I'd like to see more in the stdlib than a second re engine.

Geremy Condra