Int methods (was RE: string.py)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Quinn Dunkan <quinn at pfennig.ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> Beautiful!  Move aside, "greedy matching", let's go change the re
> documentation to say "maximal munch".

does "munching" really involve backtracking?

(greedy matching means "match as much as possible, as
long as the rest of the expression matches the rest of the
target string".   iirc, python's tokenizer doesn't backtrack).

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