Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed6.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.000 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 1.00; '*S*': 0.00; 'python.': 0.02; 'url:pypi': 0.03; 'explicitly': 0.04; '"""': 0.05; 'guido': 0.05; '(using': 0.07; 'expressions': 0.07; 'subject:adding': 0.07; 'python': 0.09; 'pep': 0.09; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'subject:library': 0.09; 'subject:module': 0.09; 'library': 0.15; 'code).': 0.16; 'fuzzy': 0.16; 'message- id:@dough.gmane.org': 0.16; 'module).': 0.16; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:dip.t-dialin.net': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'received:t-dialin.net': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.17; 'module,': 0.17; 'subject:request': 0.17; 'module': 0.19; 'discussion': 0.20; 'sort': 0.21; 'help.': 0.22; "i'd": 0.22; "python's": 0.23; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'module.': 0.27; 'replace': 0.27; 'regular': 0.27; 'header:X -Complaints-To:1': 0.28; 'efficiently': 0.29; 'initiating': 0.29; "i'm": 0.29; 'url:python': 0.32; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.33; 'knowledge': 0.33; 'project': 0.34; 'exist': 0.35; 'so,': 0.35; 'there': 0.35; 'received:org': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'author': 0.37; 'rather': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.38; 'some': 0.38; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'easily': 0.39; 'header:Received:5': 0.40; 'think': 0.40; 'personally': 0.61; 'procedure': 0.61; 'future.': 0.62; 'gone': 0.64; 'matthew': 0.65; 'contact': 0.68; 'low': 0.83 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> Subject: Re: Procedure to request adding a module to the standard library - or initiating a vote on it Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2012 13:15:29 +0200 Organization: None References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508497e6.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: KNode/4.7.3 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 35 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1344338140 news.xs4all.nl 6958 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:49151 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:26699 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > I'd like to request adding the module > > http://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex > > to Python's standard library in the (near) future or to even replace the > current 're' module by it. > > Personally I'm in need for fuzzy regular expressions and I don't see how > to do this easily and efficiently without this module. > > For a long term project I also need some "guarantee" that this > functionality will exist in future. There has been a discussion about that particular module, and it would have gone into 3.3 if it were not for the low "bus count" (only the author having working knowledge of the code). > So, is there a (formal) procedure for such a request or for initiating > some sort of vote on it? > > I know there is a "Benevolent Dictator" for Python. > Should I try to contact him personally? I don't think that will help. From PEP 408: """ As part of the same announcement, Guido explicitly accepted Matthew Barnett's 'regex' module [4] as a provisional addition to the standard library for Python 3.3 (using the 'regex' name, rather than as a drop-in replacement for the existing 're' module). """