IMHO the reference proposed in the patch is too verbose. Adding details like what is supported and how to use some features I think is out of the scope of the reference. Moreover, if the regex module changes the features we are reporting in the reference, we'll have an outdated reference.

In addition, as Brett Cannon pointed out in msg287159, the preferred way to mention a 3rd-party library should be by adding the reference at the top of the page, as in Doc/library/urllib.request.rst:19.

I propose to just add a more concise reference, at the beginning of the page, like the following:

.. seealso:: `regex <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex/>`_,
   a third-party alternative regular expression module.