Python 1.6 and Python 3000's new features?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Alessandro Bottoni wrote:
> Why new regular expressions? What was wrong with the "old" re module?

   Speed. Current implementation on top of PCRE do too many excessive
things, such as always creating match object; but in many situation match
object just don't need.

Oleg.
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