Bug#666790: ITP: python-regex -- alternative regular expression module
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 09:58, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> wrote:
> ]] Sandro Tosi
>
>> For testing and comparison with the current 're' module the new implementation
>> is in the form of a module called 'regex'.
>
> This sounds like a bad name, since there used to be a regex module in
> the standard distribution a few years back and there's therefore a fair
> amount of documentation warning against using it.
that's the upstream name, and infact I've renamed the also source to
python-regex (instead of keeping 'regex' as upsteram chose); also,
it's well known in the python community what regex module is. To make
it more clear, packages will be python{,3}-regex{,-dbg} but what
you'll import is regex, as per Python Policy.
Could you point to some references about why it's a bad name?
Regards,
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