On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:43:16 -0700, Peng Yu wrote: >> Most probably a backport to Python 2.6 or even 2.5 under a different >> module name like re_ng wouldn't be too difficult to do for anybody that >> needs the new functionality and knows a bit about building extension >> modules. > > I did a google a search. But I don't find any document that describe it. > Does it have almost the same functionality as the re package that will > be in Python 2.7? Where is the decumentation of it? > > If I just need variable width look-behind, I just replace re with re_ng > on python 2.5 or 2.6, right? Is re_ng available on python 2.4?
re_ng doesn't exist yet, because Python 2.7 doesn't exist yet. 2.6 has only just come out -- it will probably be at least a year before 2.7 is out, and only then might people start back-porting the new re engine to 2.5 or 2.6. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
