mxTools (was Re: why no "do : until"?)

[Fredrik Lundh]

Donn Cave wrote:
> I have never used mxDateTime, so I have 0 cents on that, but I have
> used mxTextTools.  I found it to be efficient and powerful, and ought
> to be useful in a significant number of applications and modules
> that have text to parse -- if it were already available with the
> distribution.

can anyone summarize what mxTextTools can do that you
cannot do with the 're' module?

cheers /F