Re: [Python-Dev] re performance

2017-01-26 Thread Vlastimil Brom
2017-01-26 22:13 GMT+01:00 Sven R. Kunze : > Hi folks, > > I recently refreshed regular expressions theoretical basics *indulging in > reminiscences* So, I read https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html > > However, reaching the chart in the lower third of the article, I saw Python > 2.4 measured

Re: [Python-Dev] collections.Counter __add__ implementation quirk

2015-11-23 Thread Vlastimil Brom
2015-11-23 7:21 GMT+01:00 Alexander Walters : > collections.Counter.__add__ as a bit of a quirk. > > Counters allow for negative numbers. You can subtract from a counter into > the negative no problem. However, if you have a counter with a negative > value and add it to another counter, and if th

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

2010-12-07 Thread Vlastimil Brom
2010/12/7 Alexander Belopolsky : > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Vlastimil Brom > wrote: > .. >> Do you know of any re engine fully complying to to tr18, even at the >> first level: "Basic Unicode Support"? >> > """ > ICU Reg

Re: [Python-Dev] Python and the Unicode Character Database

2010-12-07 Thread Vlastimil Brom
2010/12/7 Alexander Belopolsky : > On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:58 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >>> I actually wonder if Python's re module can claim to provide even >>> Basic Unicode Support. >> >> Do you really wonder? Most definitely it does not. >> > > Were you more optimistic four years ago? > >

Re: [Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2?

2010-07-16 Thread Vlastimil Brom
" this page by Jan Goyvaerts is for various implementations, but it looks like a very comprehensive reference. I think with a new regex implementation, not all of this "historical" semantics must be copied, unless there are major real usecases, which would be affected by this. Just a

Re: [Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2?

2010-07-13 Thread Vlastimil Brom
could be a competent maintainer of this package in the standardlib as well. just my biased opinion... Regards, Vlastimil Brom ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com