Python support for regular expressions
Python support for regular expressions
Posted Feb 23, 2022 15:00 UTC (Wed) by simcop2387 (subscriber, #101710)In reply to: Python support for regular expressions by fsateler
Parent article: Python support for regular expressions
Posted Feb 26, 2022 0:58 UTC (Sat)
by rra (subscriber, #99804)
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As the module maintainer, this is the best of both worlds for me. I can release more quickly than Perl itself and test changes and new features, Perl will pick up the stable version during its release cycles, and people who desperately need the new version for some reason can depend on it directly with a version bound, which will trigger the correct behavior from various module managers.
Posted Mar 10, 2022 1:26 UTC (Thu)
by bartoc (guest, #124262)
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The re module is fine for a lot of stuff, we use it in some python scripts related to our build system and test harness, and we wouldn't want to use regex from pip since re works well enough for us, and regex doesn't come pre-installed. That said if it _did_ come pre-installed I'd be tempted to go through and upgrade all our python scripts, even if it was maintained and released on a schedule separate from the standard library proper.
Sidenote: I really like raku/perl6's alternate regex syntax, it's nice.
Python support for regular expressions
Python support for regular expressions