On 28/10/2018 22:04, Karsten Hilbert wrote: > - options needs to be able to contain nearly anything, except '::' > > Is that sufficiently defined and helpful to design the regular expression ?
so options isn't '.*', but more like '(:?[^:]+)*' (Figuring out what additional restriction this imposes is left an an exercise for the reader) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
