+
+# regular expressions used in replaceLJTags()
+# (global for later reuse - suggestion by jparise)
+
+userRE = re.compile('<lj user="(.*?)" ?/?>', re.IGNORECASE)
+commRE = re.compile('<lj comm="(.*?)" ?/?>', re.IGNORECASE)
+namedCutRE = re.compile('<lj-cut +text="(.*?)" ?/?>',
+ re.IGNORECASE|re.DOTALL)
+cutRE = re.compile('<lj-cut>', re.IGNORECASE)
+cutRE = re.compile('</lj-cut>', re.IGNORECASE)
+embedRE = re.compile('<lj-embed id="[0-9]+">', re.IGNORECASE)
+