Regexp optimization question

[Jeremy Fincher]

mlh at furu.idi.ntnu.no (Magnus Lie Hetland) wrote in message news:<slrnc8ieul.7j7.mlh at furu.idi.ntnu.no>...
> One problem might be that the regexp format seems to be quite
> stripped-down (although, of course, a regexp is a regexp,
> theoretically speaking ;)
> 
> No non-greedy matching, no lookahead/lookback etc.

It's important to note that many of these features turn the
expressions that represent their use into decidedly non-regular
expressions, regardless of what Pythoneers and Perlers call them :)

Jeremy