Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Hmm, this fails on python2 too. Maybe re.ASCII is added for backward > compatibility? Again, I'm not familiar with unicode, so I won't call > remove_ascii_flag.patch as *fix*.
re.ASCII was added to many stdlib modules because I wanted to minimize the potential for breakage when I converted the re library to use unicode matching by default. If it is desireable for strptime() and friends to match unicode digits as well as pure-ASCII digits (which sounds like a reasonable request to me), then re.ASCII can probably be dropped without any regret. (py3k doesn't have to be 100% compatible with python2 :-)) _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5239> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
