[stdlib-sig] Removing the deprecated sre module?

[Brett Cannon]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Alexandre Vassalotti
<alexandre at peadrop.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Benjamin Peterson
>  <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 5:35 PM, Alexandre Vassalotti
>  >  <alexandre at peadrop.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > >  Currently, the sre module is just a stub that imports the re module.
>  >  >  So, I don't think removing in Py3k will cause any problem.
>  >
>  >  Is this just the sre.py module? Does it include sre_constants,
>  >  sre_compile, and sre_parse?
>  >
>
>  I was talking only about the sre module stub, not the other sre_*
>  modules. These are still needed (e.g., sre_constants is used to
>  generate the Modules/sre_constants.h header).
>
>  Anyway, would it be a good idea to move the re and sre_* modules into
>  their own package?
>
>    re -> re.__init__
>    sre_compile -> re._compile
>    sre_constants -> re._constants
>    sre_parse -> re._parse

That's a possibility, although this will have to go past python-dev at
this point since the PEP has already been accepted.

-Brett