[Python-Dev] what is happening with the regex module going into Python 3.3?

[Brian Curtin]

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
> On 6/1/2012 1:27 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>
>> About the only thing I can think of from the language summit that we
>> discussed doing for Python 3.3 that has not come about is accepting the
>> regex module and getting it into the stdlib. Is this still being worked
>> towards?
>
>
> Since there is no PEP to define the details* of such an addition, I assume
> that no particular core developer focused on this. There have been a lot of
> other additions to take people's attention. Also, I do not remember seeing
> anything from Mathew Barnett about his views on the proposal.
>
> * Some details:
>
> Replacement of or addition to re.

At the language summit it was proposed that this regex project would
enter as re, and the current re moves to sre. Everyone seemed to
agree.

> Relation to continued external project and 'ownership' of code.

As with anything else, no more external.