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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 01:00:31 +0200
"M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I can't say I liked how that transition was handled last time around.
> > I really don't want to have to tell people "Oh, that bug is fixed but
> > you have to use regex instead of re" and then a few years later have
> > to tell them "Oh, we're deprecating regex, you should just use re".
> 
> No, you tell them: "If you want Unicode 6 semantics, use regex,
> if you're fine with Unicode 2.0/3.0 semantics, use re". After all,
> it's not like re suddenly stopped working :-)

It has a whole lot of new features in addition to better unicode
support. See for yourself:
https://code.google.com/p/mrab-regex-hg/wiki/GeneralDetails

> Perhaps we could have a summer of code student do a review and
> analysis to get familiar with the code and then have at least
> two developers know the code well enough to support it for
> a while.

I'm not sure a GSoC student would be the best candidate to do a review
matching our expectations.

Regards

Antoine.