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

You could try to build re2 into its own DLL/so and use ctypes to call functions from that DLL/so. You will probably need to define your own entry points in the DLL/so.