[Python-ideas] Python 2's re module should take longs

[Ned Deily]

In article <20141001005156.GU19757 at ando.pearwood.info>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Since 2.7 is bug-fix only mode, and this fix is unneeded in 3.x, there 
> is no point in raising an issue to the tracker.

It's a moot point now:

http://bugs.python.org/issue22530
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/30f72ed73c3b

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 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org