On 1/25/2012 12:16 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
(?...) # Base Extension Syntax All extensions are wrapped in parenthesis and start with a question mark, but i believe the question mark was a very bad choice, since the
I think that syntax came either from Perl or the pcre library used by several open source programs, including several Python versions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pcre has some info on this. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list