Bug#666790: ITP: python-regex -- alternative regular expression module

2012-04-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:33, Jakub Wilk wrote: > http://docs.python.org/release/1.5.1/lib/module-regex.html > The module was removed in Python 2.5. so for the supported python versions is a "safe" name. Sorry, but I'm not going to change that name (if you install a third-party module, you should

Bug#666790: ITP: python-regex -- alternative regular expression module

2012-04-02 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Sandro Tosi , 2012-04-02, 10:06: 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 t

Bug#666790: ITP: python-regex -- alternative regular expression module

2012-04-02 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 09:58, Tollef Fog Heen 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 dis

Bug#666790: ITP: python-regex -- alternative regular expression module

2012-04-02 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] 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 o

Bug#666790: ITP: python-regex -- alternative regular expression module

2012-04-01 Thread Sandro Tosi
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Sandro Tosi * Package name: python-regex Version : 0.1.20120323 Upstream Author : Matthew Barnett 1 * URL : https://code.google.com/p/mrab-regex-hg/ * License : Python Software Foundation License Programming Lang: C, Py