Making regular expressions more friendly

[Skip Montanaro]

    Magnus> Nice ... except I don't understand why you need the welcome()
    Magnus> and banish() functions... Why not standard importing like other
    Magnus> modules?  (Enlighten me, please... :)

I can't recall why, but I do recall that Ping explained it at some point.
Check the newsgroup archives.  There is probably something from around late
'97 or thereabouts.

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