regex for triple quote

Question

What regex will find the triple quote comments (possibly multi-line) in a Python source code?

Answer 1

I've found this one from Tim Peters (I think) :

pat = """
    qqq
    [^\\q]*
    (
    (   \\\\[\000-\377]
        |   q
        (   \\\\[\000-\377]
        |   [^\\q]
        |   q
        (   \\\\[\000-\377]
            |   [^\\q]
        )
        )
    )
    [^\\q]*
    )*
    qqq
"""  
pat = ''.join(pat.split(), '')  
tripleQuotePat = pat.replace("q", "'") + "|" + pat.replace('q', '"')  

But, as stated by bobince, regex alone doesn't seem to be the right tool for parsing Python code.
So I went with tokenize from the standard library.