Ben Finney wrote: > "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> writes: >> No, you tell them: "If you want Unicode 6 semantics, use regex, if >> you're fine with Unicode 2.0/3.0 semantics, use re". > > What do we say, then, to those who are unaware of the different > semantics between those versions of Unicode, and want regular expression > to “just work” in Python? > > To which document can we direct them to understand what semantics they > want? Presumably, like all modules, both the re and the regex module will have their own individual pages in the library reference. As the newcomer, regex should include a discussion of differences between the two. This can then be quietly dropped once re becomes formally deprecated. (Assuming that the std lib keeps re and regex in parallel for a few releases, which is not a given.) However, I note that last time, the old regex module was just documented as obsolete with little detailed discussion of the differences: http://docs.python.org/release/1.5/lib/node69.html#SECTION005300000000000000000 -- Steven
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