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re is an ordinary standard Python library — https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html pcre2 is not — https://benchm

• makapuf 5y ago
  re depends ultimately of this c file https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Modules/_sre.c https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Modules/_sre.c
  • igouy 5y ago
    And? CPython is implemented in C. Here's some of a comment from _operator.c "This module exports a set of functions implemented in C corresponding\n\ to the intrinsic operators of Python. For example, operator.add(x, y)\n\ is equivalent to the expression x+y." Why wouldn't you expect that CPython regex would "ultimately" be written in C?