Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > I think I need a show of hands. > > Should the default be old behaviour (like re) or new behaviour? (It > might be old now, new later.) > > Should there be a NEW flag (as at present), or an OLD flag, or a > VERSION parameter (0=old, 1=new, 2=?)?
VERSION might be best, but then it should probably be a separate argument rather than a flag. "old now, new later" doesn't solve the issue unless we have a careful set of warnings to point out problematic regexes. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2636> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
