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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Aug 27, 2011, at 01:15 PM, Ben Finney wrote:

>My question is directed more to M-A Lemburg's passage above, and its
>implicit assumption that the user understand the changes between
>“Unicode 2.0/3.0 semantics” and “Unicode 6 semantics”, and how their own
>needs relate to those semantics.

More likely, it'll be a choice between wanting Unicode 6 semantics, and "don't
care".  So the PEP could include some clues as to why you'd care to use regex
instead of re.

-Barry