Procedure to request adding a module to the standard library - or initiating a vote on it

[Helmut Jarausch]

On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:15:29 +0200, Peter Otten wrote:

> I don't think that will help. From PEP 408:
> 
> """
> As part of the same announcement, Guido explicitly accepted Matthew
> Barnett's 'regex' module [4] as a provisional addition to the standard
> library for Python 3.3 (using the 'regex' name, rather than as a drop-in
> replacement for the existing 're' module).
> """

What is  a "provisional addition"? Python-3.3 (20120708) doesn't have 
such a module.

Many thanks,
Helmut.