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in thread Python regex faster than Perl?

> Python's re module even implements Perl regex!

Nope. There are a lot of features you won't find in Python or PCRE (and occasionally vice versa.)

There are also examples where Sed dethrones Perl, it's a question of use case.

There are also pathological cases of Regexes (with nested quantifiers) which never terminate in one engine but quickly yield results in another.

Cheers Rolf
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