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On 31Jan2016 20:23, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
>On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 02:48 pm, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> I have. I've got one right here. It happens to be in perl, but it has been
>> in need of a recode in Python for a long time. It has about 3000 regexps.
>
>Wow. What's the code do?

Adzapper. It has many many regexps matching URLs. (Actually a more globlike 
syntax, but it gets turned into a regexp.) You plug it into your squid proxy.

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>