[Zope] Re: [Zope-dev] ts_regex.py broken in Z2.0 final? was [Zope] Announce: Confera 1.3.1

[Jim Fulton]

"Andrew M. Kuchling" wrote:
> 
> Andreas Kostyrka writes:
> >Actually, the fix I've did, I understand, I've switched from the old
> >regsub to the threadsafe regex module. Now this, I don't understand, it
> >seems like the ts_regex.py is broken for gsub.
> 
> It is broken.

No, it is not broken. The usage is incorrect.
You need to use a regex regular expression with a ts_regex.gsub.

> ts_regex is a hack,

Hm. We disagree.

> and Squishdot should be using the re
> module instead.  I posted a patch to the Squishdot list that made it
> use re; check the archive at www.egroups.com/group/squishdot/ and look
> for my posting.

I have no problem with switching to re.  This is definately the
right long-term solution.

What is the current status of speed of re as compared to regex?

Jim

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