James Y Knight wrote: > On Aug 8, 2007, at 3:47 PM, Nick Maclaren wrote: > > Firstly, things like backreferences are an absolute no-no. They > > are not regular, and REs with them in cannot be converted to DFAs. > > People keep saying things like this as if GNU grep and tcl's regular > expression matchers didn't exist.
But do these work by conversion to a DFA? -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
