[Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2?

Reid Kleckner reid.kleckner at gmail.com
Tue Jul 13 16:17:36 CEST 2010


On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> MRAB's module offers a superset of re's features rather than a subset
> though, so once it has had more of a chance to bake on PyPI it may be
> worth another look.

I feel like the new module is designed to replace the current re
module, and shouldn't need to spend time in PyPI.  A faster regex
library isn't going to motivate users to add external dependencies to
their projects.

Reid


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