problems with regex in Japanese?

Joe Strout joe at strout.net
Sat Aug 11 12:05:26 EDT 2001


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In article <kusnezb0f0.fsf at lasipalatsi.fi>, Erno Kuusela
<erno-news at erno.iki.fi> wrote:

> || python no longer uses pcre, the pcre based regexp module
> || was replaced by a new unicode-aware implementation called sre (written
> || by Fredrik Lundh). sre is much faster too...
> 
> | Wow, I didn't know that.  Where can I find out more about sre?
> 
> afraid i don't know of any docs on the internals. i think
> the regex compiler is written in python, so you may need
> to embed python if you plan to use it in another software package.

OK, thanks again.  We can't do that in our case, so I guess we'll just
fix PCRE -- it seems to be 90% there anyway.

Best regards,
- Joe

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