Clint Hepner wrote:
Strictly speaking, a regular expression is just a string that encodes of a (non)deterministic finite automata.
More strictly speaking, regular expressions themselves are agnostic about determinism vs. non-determinism, since for any NFA you can always find an equivalent DFA. -- Greg _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/