[Python-Dev] re performance

[Paul Moore]

On 29 January 2017 at 20:30, Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Why not declare re deprecated and remove it in Python 4? I am pretty sure
> everyone wants to keep re in all 3.x releases, but that support need not
> extend beyond. So Py4 would have no battery for re, but it would (should!)
> be common knowledge that regex was the go-to module for general-purpose
> pattern matching. If re has advantages in certain situations someone might
> upgrade the 3.x implementation and provide it as a 3rd-party module, though
> the effort involved would be significant, so someone would have to be
> motivated to keep it.

Not having regex capability distributed with Python is a pretty big
regression. There are still a lot of users who don't have access to
3rd party modules.

Paul