Python 1.6 and Python 3000's new features?
Oleg Broytmann
phd at phd.russ.ru
Wed Mar 8 04:53:07 EST 2000
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.
Oleg.
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