[Zope-dev] [Petition] Kludge for Splitter.c (long)

[Darrell]

"LEE, Kwan Soo" is looking for Unicode support.

Check out this thread in the python group "Perl speed vs. Python speed"

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> >if everything goes according to plan, 're' (and possibly also
> >'regex') will be replaced by a new unicode-aware engine in
> >1.6.  I've attached some (somewhat outdated) benchmarks.
> 
> I'm speculating here, but I wouldn't be surprised if
> the unicode support will appear in the CVS version
> soon after the conference.
> 
> as for the official 1.6 release, only GvR knows...

--Darrell