Timeline for In what programming language is Python's regex module written in? [closed]
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| May 12, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | Doc Brown | I am not voting to delete this question, though it is clearly off-topic, because of @JörgWMittag's interesting answer. But I would not vote for reopen it, either. | |
| May 12, 2020 at 14:26 | history | edited | Doc Brown | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 12, 2020 at 12:17 | vote | accept | gython | ||
| May 11, 2020 at 18:05 | history | closed |
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| May 11, 2020 at 16:00 | comment | added | Jörg W Mittag |
@amon: Actually, as I just found out, that is untrue for almost all Python implementations and only half true even for CPython. IronPython simply uses the CLI's System.Text.RegularExpressions, Jython uses a compiler written in Python which compiles to byte code for a VM written in Java, PyPy uses a compiler written in Python which compiles to byte code for a VM written in RPython, and CPython uses a compiler written in Python which compiles to byte code for a VM written in C.
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| May 11, 2020 at 15:57 | answer | added | Jörg W Mittag | timeline score: 5 | |
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| May 11, 2020 at 15:00 | comment | added | amon |
A regex engine can be written in any language. In the case of Python's re module, the regex engine is indeed written in C.
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| May 11, 2020 at 15:00 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | It sounds like you think Python's regex implementation is not written in Python. You're probably right. Next question? | |
| May 11, 2020 at 14:58 | history | asked | gython | CC BY-SA 4.0 |