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[Robert Collins <robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 8:05 AM, John Arbash Meinel
<john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I agree that its strange that this happened now. AFAIK, though, the
>> python re engine is self contained, not a thunk to a C re engine...
>> and Python hasn't been changed since we upgraded to lucid (octoberish
>> last year).
>>
>> -Rob
>
> You mean a non-python C regex engine?

Yes, regexes are C modules in python; AFAIK the engine is NIH'd and
included in python (vs e.g. libperlre or whatever).

-Rob