[Zope-dev] regex vs. re

[Phillip J. Eby]

Thanks.  I was more looking for reasons for or against *me* using re, not
lobbying for Zope to go one way or the other.  I was curious whether there
were ones besides "it works, don't fix it" that would impact my own code.
(E.g. speed, bugs in re, etc.)  As it happened, after reading up on both
regex and re, re had features that made things much easier for what I was
doing (e.g. lookahead assertions) and so I went with that for the new code.
 I will try to stick with regex/t_regex for anything I want to contribute
for inclusion back into Zope (e.g. DocumentTemplate extensions), however.


At 09:43 AM 6/28/99 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
>
>"Phillip J. Eby" wrote:
>> 
>> One reason I ask is that I'm about to begin using regular expression in
>> ZPublished code, and I'm wondering whether there's some special reason I
>> should use regex instead of re.  (Aside from the fact that it would mean
>> not loading two different regular expression libraries, of course.  :) )
>
>I don't have a strong opinion on this.  Switching from regex to re is 
>not very high on our priority list.