[Python-Dev] re performance

[Berker Peksağ]

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:30:38 +0000
> Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>> Why not declare re deprecated and remove it in Python 4?
>
> Why deprecate and remove a library that's perfectly usable and
> satisfactory for the vast majority of regular expression usage?  It's
> not like regex presents a radically different API...
>
> Do we really have to face another wave of stdlib bashing on this
> mailing-list?

I agree with Antoine. And note that re has an active maintainer who
has fixed a bunch of bugs and added some new features in the last few
years.

--Berker