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Switch to regex library #1174

Open m1n0 opened 2 years ago

m1n0 commented 2 years ago

Switch from the built-in re regex library to another external library for regex resolving.

compatible API, enhanced capability and standard unicode support

tombaeyens commented 2 years ago

@m1n0 can you elaborate? Which reported problem lead to this? Do you already know of libs that can do this?

m1n0 commented 2 years ago

more context - built in re module docs https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#re-syntax suggests using https://pypi.org/project/regex/ for this purpose. There is no specific issue reported at this point, it just came up from internal testing.