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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Sat Aug 27 02:03:21 CEST 2011


On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:47:21 -0700
Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > The best way would be to contact the author, Matthew Barnett,
> 
> I had added him to the beginning of this thread but someone took him off.
> 
> > or to ask
> > on the tracker on http://bugs.python.org/issue2636. He has been quite
> > willing to answer such questions in the past, AFAIR.
> 
> So, that issue is about something called "regexp". AFAIK Matthew
> (MRAB) wrote something called "regex"
> (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex). Are they two different things???

No, it's the same.  The source is at
https://code.google.com/p/mrab-regex-hg/, btw.

Regards

Antoine.


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