builtin regular expressions?

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

Jorgen Grahn:
> However, there is a set of common problems which would be hell to solve
> without regexes.

I agree, and I think no one is thinking about dropping REs from Python
stdlib.
Here people are mostly talking about what's better between having them
in the stdlibs instead of inside the core language, and about their
syntax.

Bye,
bearophile