check jgsoft dot com, they have2 things witch may help. Edit pad pro (the test version has a good tutorial) or power grep (if you do a lot of regexes, or the mastering regular expressions book from Orielly (if yo do a lot of regex work)
Also the perl group would be good for regexes (pythons are Perl 5 compatable) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list