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

[Tom Christiansen]

"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.

--tom