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Remove regsub, reconvert, regex, regex_syntax and everything under lib-old.

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Neal Norwitz 2006-03-16 06:50:13 +00:00
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@ -33,11 +33,8 @@ This document is available from
The \module{re} module was added in Python 1.5, and provides
Perl-style regular expression patterns. Earlier versions of Python
came with the \module{regex} module, which provides Emacs-style
patterns. Emacs-style patterns are slightly less readable and
don't provide as many features, so there's not much reason to use
the \module{regex} module when writing new code, though you might
encounter old code that uses it.
came with the \module{regex} module, which provided Emacs-style
patterns. \module{regex} module was removed in Python 2.5.
Regular expressions (or REs) are essentially a tiny, highly
specialized programming language embedded inside Python and made
@ -1458,7 +1455,7 @@ Jeffrey Friedl's \citetitle{Mastering Regular Expressions}, published
by O'Reilly. Unfortunately, it exclusively concentrates on Perl and
Java's flavours of regular expressions, and doesn't contain any Python
material at all, so it won't be useful as a reference for programming
in Python. (The first edition covered Python's now-obsolete
in Python. (The first edition covered Python's now-removed
\module{regex} module, which won't help you much.) Consider checking
it out from your library.