Procedure to request adding a module to the standard library - or initiating a vote on it

Tue Aug 7 10:47:57 EDT 2012

On 2012年8月07日 13:15:29 +0200, Peter Otten wrote:
> I don't think that will help. From PEP 408:
>> """
> As part of the same announcement, Guido explicitly accepted Matthew
> Barnett's 'regex' module [4] as a provisional addition to the standard
> library for Python 3.3 (using the 'regex' name, rather than as a drop-in
> replacement for the existing 're' module).
> """

What is a "provisional addition"? Python-3.3 (20120708) doesn't have 
such a module.
Many thanks,
Helmut.