Category Archives: Python

Using coverage checks to improve testing

Today I’ve been working to fix an old problem which beats us, Python users, from time to time: the recursive limitation in the regular expression engine, SRE. I’ll probably talk more about this fix in the future. For now, I’d … Continue reading

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Understanding Python’s SRE structure

If you’re a Python developer, you most certainly have used Python’s regular expression for some purpose. Have you ever thought about how it is currently organized? The SRE engine, written by Fredrik Lundh, is the default regular expression engine since … Continue reading

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