On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 at 13:26 MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2017-01-27 17:03, Łukasz Langa wrote: > > > >> On Jan 26, 2017, at 5:16 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com > >> <mailto:python at mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote: > > > >>> So, it seems as if regex already uses a better algorithm although I > >>> couldn't find any reference to any regex theoretical framework like > dfa, > >>> nfa, thompson multiple-state simulation or something. > >>> > >> It still uses backtracking, like in the re module. > > > > What’s the status of regex inclusion in the stdlib? > > > > > I'm not bothered about it. It's quite a bit bigger than the re module, > and, anyway, keeping it as a third-party module gives me more freedom to > make updates, which are available for a range of Python versions. > Maybe regex should get a mention in the docs like requests does under urllib.request? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20170128/7659dcb8/attachment.html>
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