On 22 Apr 2003, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> I believe that the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) written by
> Philip originally for use in exim, is also used by python as its regular
> expression provider. As such the RE format should be somewhat familiar.
This was true at one time, but I think the Python people changed because
I wasn't fast enough in supplying UTF-8 support for PCRE.
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