Wow! This is a nice tidbit of information.

It is a nice addition to a weird region of “more than re” but “less than parsimonious”.

Usually these topics are mentioned with no overlap (at least in the narrow rabbit hole I went down last time I was interested in making regexes simple to read for humans.)

https://github.com/mikaelho/python-human-regex

https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python#text-processing

> is completely missing from any official documentation

Issues with readability and communication? How pythonic.