[Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2?

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 11:19:38 CEST 2010


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> While the re2 comparison might be interesting from an abstract
> standpoint, it intentionally supports a different regex language from
> Python so that it can run faster and use less memory. Since re2 can
> never replace Python's re module, it doesn't make sense to hold MRAB's
> new module to that standard.

re2 comparison is interesting from the point of if it should be
included in stdlib.
-- 
anatoly t.


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