diff -r 770b404b8b54 Doc/library/re.rst --- a/Doc/library/re.rst Sun Oct 12 20:36:03 2014 +0300 +++ b/Doc/library/re.rst Tue Oct 28 18:00:51 2014 +0545 @@ -44,6 +44,16 @@ Book on regular expressions by Jeffrey Friedl, published by O'Reilly. The second edition of the book no longer covers Python at all, but the first edition covered writing good regular expression patterns in great detail. + regex + This is an alternative regular expressions module with the following additional features among others in it's Version 1: + * The split method works even when the regular expression pattern matches a position instead of a character resulting in a zero width match. + This occurs when the pattern consists only of lookarounds,anchors or boundaries + * Fuzzy matching is supported by using the ENHANCEMATCH and BESTMATCH flags. This can be used to locate different phrasings of the same + sentence + * Sets are treated as nested sets. This makes it easier in places where subsets need to be removed + * Full case folding support is enabled for Unicode format + + https://pypi.python.org/pypi/regex .. _re-syntax: