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

[Ezio Melotti]

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 3:54 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>
> wrote:
> > [...]
> > Among us, some are more "regex gurus" than others; you know
> > who you are. I guess the PSF would pay for the review, if that
> > is what it would take.
>
> Makes sense. I noticed Ezio seems quite in favor of regex. Maybe he knows
> more?
>

Matthew has always been responsive on the tracker, usually fixing reported
bugs in a matter of days, and I think he's willing to keep doing so once the
regex module is included.  Even if I haven't yet tried the module myself
(I'm planning to do it though), it seems quite popular out there (the
download number on PyPI apparently gets reset for each new release, so I
don't know the exact total), and apparently people are already using it as a
replacement of re.

I'm not sure it's worth doing an extensive review of the code, a better
approach might be to require extensive test coverage  (and a review of
tests).  If the code seems well written, commented, documented (I think
proper rst documentation is still missing), and tested (both with unittest
and out in the wild), and Matthew is willing to maintain it, I think we can
include it.  We will get familiar with the code once we start contributing
to it and fixing bugs, as it already happens with most of the other modules.

See also the "New regex module for 3.2?" thread (
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101606.html ).

Best Regards,
Ezio Melotti


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