On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 01:13:23 +0100, MRAB wrote: > I even have it on a Raspberry Pi. "pip install regex" is all it took. No > need for it to be in the stdlib. :-)
That's fine for those of us who can run pip and install software from the web without being immediately fired, and for those who have installation rights on the computers they use. And those with easy, cheap and fast access to the internet. Not everyone is so lucky. There is a significant chunk of the Python community for whom "just pip install it" is not easy, legal or even possible. For them, if its not in the standard library, it might as well not even exist. -- Steven D'Aprano “You are deluded if you think software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can write virtualization layers without security holes.” —Theo de Raadt -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
