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-# change this to "pre" if your regexps stopped working. don't
-# forget to send a bug report to <some suitable address>
+#
+# Minimal "re" compatibility wrapper
+#
+# If your regexps don't work well under 2.0b1, you can switch
+# to the old engine ("pre") down below.
+#
+# To help us fix any remaining bugs in the new engine, please
+# report what went wrong. You can either use the following web
+# page:
+#
+# http://www.python.org/search/search_bugs.html
+#
+# or send a mail to SRE's author:
+#
+# Fredrik Lundh <effbot@telia.com>
+#
+# Make sure to include the pattern, the string SRE failed to
+# match, and what result you expected.
+#
+# thanks /F
+#
engine = "sre"
+# engine = "pre"
if engine == "sre":
- # new 2.0 engine
+ # New unicode-aware engine
from sre import *
else:
- # old 1.5.2 engine. will be removed in 2.0 final.
+ # Old 1.5.2 engine. This one supports 8-bit strings only,
+ # and will be removed in 2.0 final.
from pre import *