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

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:48:42 -0700
Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Then there probably should be a from __future__ import for a while.

If you are willing to use a "from __future__ import", why not simply

    import regex as re

? We're not Perl, we don't have built-in syntactic support for regular
expressions.

Regards

Antoine.