[Python-Dev] Should we move to replace re with regex?

[MRAB]

On 27/08/2011 00:08, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> "M.-A. Lemburg"<mal at egenix.com>  wrote
>     on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:00:31 +0200:
>
>> The good part is that it's based on the re code, the FUD comes
>> from the fact that the new lib is 380kB larger than the old one
>> and that's not even counting the generated 500kB of lookup
>> tables.
>
> Well, you have to put the property tables somewhere, somehow.
> There are various schemes for demand loading them as needed,
> but I don't know whether those are used.
>
FYI, the .pyd for Python v3.2 is 227KB, about half of which is property
tables.