> Perhaps test_re should be (or should have been) phased out. Test_sre > makes many of the same tests (including today's offending one), as > well as many new ones, and both run all the many old test from > re_test. It must be a (historical) quirk that they both exist. It's > mostly a waste to run both, and having two is a maintenance hassle, > underscored by the fact that Skip has choosen the less important one > of the two (IMHO) to modernize. > > It's not a high priority, but perhaps I'll look at straightening > things out in the (somewhat distant) future. Yes, this is mostly a historical artefact from the time when SRE was one of the two provided RE implementations. If you can straighten this one out, be my guest. I see no reason to stop working on the tests while Python is in beta. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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