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Re:Regular Expression Engine in 14 lines of Python by berntb on Sunday November 06, 2011 @10:17AM (#3202835)
My "point" was a joke about PCRE, the present regexp engine in Python and most other open source languages.

The answer I got (in addition to a couple of good introductory lectures I should send to people :-) ) seems to be that is sucks. :-(

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