On Feb 13, 5:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Isn't the finite state machine "regular expression 'object'" really > large?
There's no finite state machine involved here, since this isn't a regular expression in the strictest sense of the term---it doesn't translate to a finite state machine, since backreferences are involved. Mark -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list