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Lately there had been a comparison of Javascript, Perl and Python regex machinery posted here iirc (can't find right now) and the external regex module was foun

by mkesper 11y ago

Lately there had been a comparison of Javascript, Perl and Python regex machinery posted here iirc (can't find right now) and the external regex module was found to be much better regarding unicode support.

berntb 11y ago
(How could non-3 Python have good Unicode support? :-) ) The default Python regexp gets into a tailspin on less well formulated regexps, which did work well with both PCRE and Perl 5. (I wrote an application (specialized query language) a few years ago where programmers entered regexps. Sometimes the execution just hanged. This was 2.6 and early 2.7.) I haven't tried the external regexp module, but hope it is better.