[Python-ideas] thoughts on regular expression improvements

Bill Janssen janssen at parc.com
Fri May 6 22:32:18 CEST 2011


Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan at ochtman.nl> wrote:

> On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 21:11, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> > I've been doing a lot of RE hacking lately, and some possible
> > improvements suggest themselves.
> 
> Have you looked at the regex module?

Ah, you mean the PyPI "regex".  Looks like it has "branch reset", which
might support my #1?  Using the same group name multiple times?

I don't see fuzzy matches, or support for composition, though.

Bill



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