[Python-Dev] what is happening with the regex module going into Python 3.3?

[Georg Brandl]

Am 04.06.2012 00:51, schrieb "Martin v. Löwis":
>> That last statement basically suggests that something like regex would
>> never be accepted until a CPython core developer was actually running
>> into pain with the many flaws in the re module (especially when it comes
>> to Unicode).  I disagree with that.
>>
>> Per the language summit, I think we need to just do it.  Put it in as re
>> and rename the existing re module to sre.
> 
> There are really places where "we" just doesn't work, even in a
> community project. "We" will never commit anything to revision control.
> Individual committers commit.
> 
> So if *you* want to commit it, go ahead - I think there is general
> approval for that. Take the praise when it works, and take the (likely)
> blame for when it fails in some significant way, and then work on fixing
> it.
> 
>> The issue seems to be primarily one of "who is volunteering to do it?"
> 
> I don't think anybody is, or will be for the coming years. I wish I had
> trust into MRAB to stay around and work on this for the next ten years
> (and I think the author of the regex module really needs to commit for
> that timespan, see SRE's history), but I don't. So whoever commits the
> change now is in charge, and will either have to work hard on fixing the
> problems, or will be responsible for breaking Python 3 in a serious way.

Agreed with all of the above.  (That's not a -1, but a warning.)

Georg