[New-bugs-announce] [issue22584] Get rid of SRE character tables

[Serhiy Storchaka]

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka:

Currently the SRE regular expression engine uses internal tables to implement ASCII-only character predicates and converting. Proposed patch get rid of these tables and reuse standard Python macros Py_ISSPACE, Py_TOLOWER, etc.

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components: Extension Modules, Regular Expressions
files: sre_tables.patch
keywords: patch
messages: 228836
nosy: ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, pitrou, serhiy.storchaka
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Get rid of SRE character tables
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.5
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36841/sre_tables.patch

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