Please provide a fallback from regex to the standard re module #8031

Context

I am maintaining Python packages for Gentoo Linux. mkdocs-autorefs package supports PyPy3, and it recently gained a dependency on mkdocs-material.

Description

Some of the mkdocs-material plugins currently depend on the regex package. This package relies on CPython implementation details and has significant technical debt, and support for other Python implementations such as PyPy has been rejected upstream.

Related links

• https://pypi.org/project/regex/#pypy
• split offset wrong due to UTF-8 issues on PyPy3 mrabarnett/mrab-regex#374 (comment)

Use Cases

It will enable full functionality of the plugin when using alternate Python implementations such as PyPy.

Visuals

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