Python 1.6 and Python 3000's new features?

[Bernhard Herzog]

Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.russ.ru> writes:

> On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Alessandro Bottoni wrote:
> > Why new regular expressions? What was wrong with the "old" re module?
> 
>    Speed. Current implementation on top of PCRE do too many excessive
> things, such as always creating match object; but in many situation match
> object just don't need.

I'd say the main reason for the regex engine is Unicode support.


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