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Author tim.peters
Recipients crouleau, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka, tim.peters
Date 2012-07-31.21:16:16
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Matthew, yes, PyPy's regex module implements regular expressions of the "computer science" (as opposed to POSIX) sense.  See Friedl's book for a full explanation.  Short course is that regex's flavor of regexp matching is linear-time, but cannot support "advanced" features like backreferences.
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