Useful RE patterns

[Pekka Niiranen]

I would make the following changes to sre:

1) findall() does not return empty matches
2) function to return nested structures .ie. recursive decent parser. Have a look
of egenix's mail list on June

-pekka-

Michael Hudson wrote:

> Norman Shelley <Norman_Shelley-RRDN60 at email.sps.mot.com> writes:
>
> > Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> >
> > > ...
> > > If I were to add a dozen (or so) patterns to the (S)RE module,
> > > what should I pick?  What patterns do you find yourself using
> > > over and over again?
> >
> > All kinds of numerics, e.g. scientific (1e-6, 2e6, ...) and engineering (1u,
> > 2M and/or 2MEG, ...) notation.
> >
> > Python identifiers as previously mentioned.
>
> Well, *they're* already in the tokenize module.
>
> Cheers,
> M.
>
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