ungreedy regular expressions

[Constantinos A. Kotsokalis]

Disclaimer: I am not sure whether this has been brought up before,
I am not reading the newsgroup very often (I could not find any reference
though, after a subject search).

I recently added two lines of code to the python distribution, in order
to support ungreedy regular expressions (which are supported by pcre
but I could find no way to use them in python code). If there is some
way already that I am not aware of, please e-mail me :-) If you are
interested in having it available, edit Modules/pcremodule.c and add
the line:

insint(d, "UNGREEDY", PCRE_UNGREEDY);

after line 681. Then compile and install python, and right after
edit <python-prefix>/lib/python1.5/re.py, and add the line:

U = UNGREEDY

after line 18.
That's all, you can now use re.UNGREEDY (or re.U) just like re.MULTILINE
etc.

  Regards,
	Costas

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