> the orig impl matches the abi_type at the beginning of the parentheses,
> yours simply ignores the abi_type (that should have caught my eye, but that
> regex looked so much like magic that I didn't try to make sense of it :-))

Same here. :)

The version I attached seems to work for me. It's some kind of compromise -- basically it's the original regex but with the unneccessary, performance-decreasing cruft stripped away.

btw, "Jonas H." is perfectly fine - I don't care about being honored, I just want to `import uuid` without waiting forever. :-)