[Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2?

[Nick Coghlan]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> Sure -- I don't think this is a showstopper for regex.  However if we don't
> include regex in a future version, we might think about increasing MAXCACHE
> a bit, and maybe not clear the cache when it reaches its max length, but
> rather remove another element.

Yikes, I didn't know it did that. That certainly sounds like it should
be an RFE in its own right - some basic form of Least Recently Used
accounting should be beneficial (although the extra bookkeeping might
hurt scripts that aren't hitting the cache limit).

Cheers,
Nick.

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