Adds `prefixmatch` APIs to the re module as an alternate name for our long existing `match` APIs to help alleviate a common Python confusion for those coming from other languages regular expression libraries.
These alleviate common confusion around what "match" means as Python is different than other popular languages regex libraries in our use of the term as an API name. The original `match` names are **NOT being deprecated**. Source tooling like linters, IDEs, and LLMs could suggest using `prefixmatch` instead of match to improve code health and reduce cognitive burden of understanding the intent of code when configured for a modern minimum Python version.
See the documentation changes for a better description.
Discussions took place in the PR, in the issue, and finally at https://discuss.python.org/t/add-re-prefixmatch-deprecate-re-match/105927
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
\Z was an error inherited from PCRE 0.95. It was fixed in PCRE 2.0.
In other engines, \Z means not “anchor at string end”, but
“anchor before optional newline at string end”.
\z means “anchor at string end” in most RE engines.
Renamed re.error for clarity, and kept re.error for backward compatibility.
Updated idlelib files at TJR's request.
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Co-authored-by: Matthias Bussonnier <mbussonnier@ucmerced.edu>
Co-authored-by: Hugo van Kemenade <hugovk@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Deprecate passing optional arguments maxsplit, count and flags in
module-level functions re.split(), re.sub() and re.subn() as positional.
They should only be passed by keyword.
Functions re.sub() and re.subn() and corresponding re.Pattern methods
are now 2-3 times faster for replacement strings containing group references.
Closes#91524
Primarily authored by serhiy-storchaka Serhiy Storchaka
Minor-cleanups-by: Gregory P. Smith [Google] <greg@krypto.org>
