Is it possible to use re2 from Python?

Question

i just discovered http://code.google.com/p/re2, a promising library that uses a long-neglected way (Thompson NFA) to implement a regular expression engine that can be orders of

Answer 1

David Reiss has put together a Python wrapper for re2. It doesn't have all of the functionality of Python's re module, but it's a start. It's available here: http://github.com/facebook/pyre2.