[Python-Dev] Re: Priority queue (binary heap) python code

[François Pinard]

[Aahz]

> Thank Fredrik for a brilliant job of re-implementing Perl's regex syntax
> into something that I assume is maintainable (haven't looked at the code
> myself) *and* Unicode compliant.

Yes, this seems to be a very good thing for Python.

Speedy regexp engines are notoriously hard to maintain cleanly, at least,
so told me a few successive maintainers of GNU regexp.  Difficult points
are deterministic matching (avoiding backtracking) and POSIX compliance,
and the longest match criterion in particular.

For one, I'm pretty happy with Python regexp implementation, even if it
avoids the above points.  It has other virtues that are well worth the
trade, at least from the experience I have of it so far!

So, in a word, thanks too! :-)

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard