A simple RE engine written in Python can be short, this is a toy: http://paste.lisp.org/display/24849 If you can't live without the usual syntax: http://paste.lisp.org/display/24872
Paul Rubin: > Yes, I want something like that all the time for file scanning without > having to resort to parser modules or hand coded automata. Once read a file is a string or unicode. On them you can use normal REs. If you need list-REs you probably slit the data in some parts. Can you show one or more examples where you think simple list-REs can be useful? Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
