Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > I learned about Python regular expressions from the Web documentation > <http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html>. This describes a module named "re". > Then I saw some code written by a colleague, and he was using a module > named "sre". I checked my Python 2.4.3 installation, and sure enough, I > have a module named "sre" as well as "re". Curious, I fired up an > interactive Python session, and looked to see what the docstrings were for > these modules. And for the "re" module, the help says: > > re - Minimal "re" compatibility wrapper. See "sre" for documentation. > > and "sre" seems to have the more complete set of docstrings. > > So which one should we be using?
Here's what Python 2.5 has to say on the matter: >>> import sre __main__:1: DeprecationWarning: The sre module is deprecated, please import re. Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
