New Python regex Doc

[Peter Hansen]

Mike Meyer wrote:
> As I've suggested before, what's really needed is a short tutorial on
> regular expressions in general. That page could include a definition
> of terms that are unique to regular expressions, and the re package
> documentation could link the word greedy to that definition.

You mean like http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/regex/ ?

Which as I recall is already linked from the Python re docs.  (Perhaps 
Xah's browser wasn't working that day...)

And which, at least implicitly, defines "greedy" by in section 6.3 
titled "Greedy versus Non-Greedy".  It's not perfect, but then nobody in 
this thread has offered anything even remotely resembling perfect 
documentation for regular expressions yet. <wink>

-Peter