[GSOC idea] enhance regular expressions?

[KennyTM~]

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

:)