I talked to Larry about this at the Usenix VHLL conference -- this
would be a great win for Python. Unfortunately Larry thought his
regex code was intricately intertwined with the rest of Perl so I
didn't look into it.
--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <mailto:Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
<http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Guido.van.Rossum.html>