[granular]

I disagree. Python regexen are a royal pain compared to how they work in Perl. You know what would be pretty funny is if a rogue group of guerilla programmers hacked Perl style regex match and replace syntax into Python.

Heheheh, boy would that get some bees in some bonnets on the Python dev ML. :)

[ubernostrum]

It's been done, by Andrew Dalke, using a Python extension toolkit he developed:

http://dalkescientific.com/Python/python4ply-tutorial.html#p...

He presented it at PyCon a couple years ago, response seemed to be "that's cool".