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Tue Jun 5 02:31:10 CEST 2012 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-June/119884.html

MRAB wrote:

> I personally am no longer that bothered about whether the regex module
> makes it into stdlib, but I am still be maintaining it on PyPI. If
> someone else wants to integrate it I would, of course, be willing to
> help out.

Are you withdrawing your offer to maintain regex in the stdlib?

> As long as they basically have the same source code, any bugs or other
> problems in the integrated module would be shared by the separate
> module, and I would want to fix them, so any fix in the separate module
> could be replicated easily in the integrated module.

But changes to the stdlib (bug fixes or functional changes) are very likely to 
run at a slower pace to what third-party packages can afford. If you continue 
to develop regex outside of the stdlib, that could cause complications.

-- 
Steven

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