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Mon Jul 12 01:42:40 CEST 2010 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-July/101732.html

On Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:37:22 pm Eric Smith wrote:
> > re2 comparison is interesting from the point of if it should be
> > included in stdlib.
>
> Is "it" re2 or regex? I don't see having 2 regular expression engines
> in the stdlib.

There's precedence though... the old regex engine and the new re engine 
were side-by-side for many years before regex was deprecated and 
finally removed in 2.5. Hypothetically, re2 could similarly be added to 
the standard library while re is deprecated.

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Steven D'Aprano

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