Making regular expressions more friendly

[Skip Montanaro]

    Magnus> Well - I still don't like the non-standard welcome() and
    Magnus> banish()...  And it doesn't cover all of the functionality of
    Magnus> the re module...  Perhaps a revised version could be made.

It predates re by a bit, so it's not at all surprising that it's not
supported.  Ping doesn't hang around here much these days.  If you managed
to make the port, I doubt he'd mind.  As for the rationale behind welcome()
and banish(), see:

    http://x33.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=181453806

blame-from-module-import-*-once-again-ly y'rs,

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