Regex for parsing out information from the IDMB list files

IMDBRegex.py

name = re.compile("""
('.+')?\s*			# nickname (optional, group 1)
(([^,']*),)?\s*			# last name (optional, group 3)
([^\(]+)			# first name (required, group 4)
(\((\w+)\))?			# actor number (optional, group 6)
""", re.VERBOSE)
acted_in = re.compile("""
"?([^"]*?)"?\s			# title (required, group 1) surrounded by quotations if it's a tv show
\(((\d+)/?(\w+)?).*?\)	# the year (required, group 3), followed by `/ROMAN_NUMERAL` 
				# (optional, group 4) if multiple in same year
(\s*\((T?VG?)\))?		# special code (optional, group 6), one of 'TV', 'V', 'VG'
(\s*\((\w*)\))?			# information regarding part (optional, group 8), e.g. 'voice', 'likeness'
(\s*\{([^s\(]*?)(\s*\(\#(\d+)\.(\d+)\))?\})?
				# episode information: episode title (optional, group 10), within that
				# episode series (optional, group 12) and episode number 
				# (optional, group 13) information. The episode series and number are
				# optional within the optional group.
(\s*\[(.*)\])?			# character name (optional, group 15) (surrounded by '[' and ']')
(\s*\<(\d+)\>)?			# billing position (optional, group 17) (surrounded by '<' and '>')
""", re.VERBOSE)