Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Tue Aug 24 23:05:24 CEST 2004

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Barry wrote:

> PEP 291 says that sre.py needs to be backward compatible with Python
> 2.1.  sre.py says:
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> # this module works under 1.5.2 and later.  don't use string methods
> import string
>
> Which is it?

Martin changed the PEP last week (or so), but forgot to remove the
comment.

Note that you can remove some code from _sre.c as well (see join_list,
and perhaps other places that checks for >= 1.6).

cheers /F 

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