[GSOC idea] enhance regular expressions?

[spir]

On 03/29/2011 02:16 PM, KennyTM~ wrote:
> On Mar 29, 11 18:56, bearophile wrote:
>> Dmitry Olshansky:
>>
>>> Others (except (?P<name>) and (?P=name) ) also considered common extensions
>>> and I planed to add them plus regex comment (#...) where all of ... simply
>>> have no effect on matching.
>>
>> Beside the (#...) comments in Python you have also the verbose regex, that
>> allow to put whispace and free #... comments with no parentheses. I find this
>> one of the nicest features, because it allows you to format your regex.
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
>
> You can also format regex with
>
> r"\d+" // matches the integer part
> ~ r"(?:\.\d+)?"; // matches the fractional part
>
> :)

Nice trick, thank you!

Denis
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