In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Otten wrote: > 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.
That's good. Does "help(re)" still say it's a "compatibility wrapper"? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
