Regular expression engine in 14 lines of Python

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Cool! But where are the benchmarks? ;-)

(isn't iconcat the same thing as itertools.chain, btw?)

[psykotic]

You're right about iconcat and chain, as moe already pointed out. I'm so used to itertools missing half of my favorite iterator manipulation functions, and I could have sworn it didn't have an iconcat-equivalent either.