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On 24/10/2013 22:47, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> The new module is now five years old.  PEP 429 Python 3.4 release
> schedule has it listed under "Other proposed large-scale changes" but I
> don't believe this is actually happening.  Lots of issues on the bug
> tracker have been closed as fixed in the new module, see issue 2636 for
> more data.  Some work is still being carried out on the old re module.
>
> So where do we stand?  Is the new module getting into Python 3.x, Python
> 4.y or what?  If no do all the old issues have to be reopened and
> applied to the re module?  Who has to make the final decision on all of
> this?
>
> Note that I've no direct interest as I rarely if ever use the little
> perishers, I just find this situation bizarre.
>

Anybody?

And FTR I'll break Armed Forces Rule No. 1 and volunteer my own 
pitifully poor servies if I can help take this forward, as I think it's 
daft having issues marked as fixed on the bug tracker but the fix not 
being available in the standard library, only on pypi.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence