[Python-Dev] re performance

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/28/2017 9:43 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 27 January 2017 at 22:24, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> On 2017-01-27 17:03, Łukasz Langa wrote:

>>> What’s the status of regex inclusion in the stdlib?
>>>
>> I'm not bothered about it. It's quite a bit bigger than the re module, and,
>> anyway, keeping it as a third-party module gives me more freedom to make
>> updates, which are available for a range of Python versions.
>
> I still think it could be a good candidate for a first "bundled"
> module, where we don't migrate it fully into the CPython development
> process, but *do* officially bless it and provide it by default in the
> form of a bundled wheel file (similar to what we do with pip).

So like pip, we would bundle the current version, install it in 
site-packages, and users who use it could upgrade as desired, even after 
x.y bugfix ends.

What would be nice would be to have a short entry in the docs for 
bundled modules that links to the real doc, wherever it is.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy