Hacky perl-like regexp wrapper

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+# Copyright 2007 James Bunton <jamesbunton@fastmail.fm>
+# Licensed for distribution under the GPL version 2, check COPYING for details
+# Quicker, easier regular expressions
+
+import re
+
+class RE(object):
+       def __init__(self, regex):
+               self.regex = re.compile(regex)
+       
+       def __eq__(self, s):
+               assert isinstance(s, basestring)
+               return self.regex.search(s)
+       
+       def __ne__(self, s):
+               return not self == s
+