[Python-Dev] re performance

[Antoine Pitrou]

On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 20:30:38 +0000
Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> Why not declare re deprecated and remove it in Python 4?

Why deprecate and remove a library that's perfectly usable and
satisfactory for the vast majority of regular expression usage?  It's
not like regex presents a radically different API...

Do we really have to face another wave of stdlib bashing on this
mailing-list?

Regards

Antoine.