Message 73162 - Python tracker

Message73162

Author	terry.reedy
Recipients	amaury.forgeotdarc, benjamin.peterson, gregory.p.smith, mrabarnett, pitrou, terry.reedy
Date	2008-09-13.02:29:20
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Atomic groups and possessive quantifiers appear to be relatively new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions for instance, has no mention of either that I found. http://www.regular-expressions.info/atomic.html http://www.regular-expressions.info/possessive.html seemed pretty clear to me. If they accurately describe what you are adding, they might be a starting point for the needed new manual sections. They should include a warning about carefully ordering alternatives lest one prune too much.

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Atomic groups and possessive quantifiers appear to be relatively new:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expressions
for instance, has no mention of either that I found.

http://www.regular-expressions.info/atomic.html
http://www.regular-expressions.info/possessive.html
seemed pretty clear to me.  If they accurately describe what you are
adding, they might be a starting point for the needed new manual
sections.  They should include a warning about carefully ordering
alternatives lest one prune too much.

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