Dmitry Olshansky: > Others (except (?P<name>) and (?P=name) ) also considered common extensions > and I planed to add them plus regex comment (#...) where all of ... simply > have no effect on matching.
Beside the (#...) comments in Python you have also the verbose regex, that allow to put whispace and free #... comments with no parentheses. I find this one of the nicest features, because it allows you to format your regex. Bye, bearophile
