docs: kdoc_re: Improve docstrings and comments

In preparation to document kernel-doc module, improve its
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <14a12a43144d52345bfd405d0401d246f0885acf.1768838938.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>

Author: mchehab

tools/lib/python/kdoc/kdoc_re.py

@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ def __str__(self):
         """
         return self.regex.pattern
 
+    def __repr__(self):
+        return f're.compile("{self.regex.pattern}")'
+
     def __add__(self, other):
         """
         Allows adding two regular expressions into one.
@@ -61,44 +64,44 @@ def __add__(self, other):
 
     def match(self, string):
         """
-        Handles a re.match storing its results
+        Handles a re.match storing its results.
         """
 
         self.last_match = self.regex.match(string)
         return self.last_match
 
     def search(self, string):
         """
-        Handles a re.search storing its results
+        Handles a re.search storing its results.
         """
 
         self.last_match = self.regex.search(string)
         return self.last_match
 
     def findall(self, string):
         """
-        Alias to re.findall
+        Alias to re.findall.
         """
 
         return self.regex.findall(string)
 
     def split(self, string):
         """
-        Alias to re.split
+        Alias to re.split.
         """
 
         return self.regex.split(string)
 
     def sub(self, sub, string, count=0):
         """
-        Alias to re.sub
+        Alias to re.sub.
         """
 
         return self.regex.sub(sub, string, count=count)
 
     def group(self, num):
         """
-        Returns the group results of the last match
+        Returns the group results of the last match.
         """
 
         return self.last_match.group(num)
@@ -110,7 +113,7 @@ class NestedMatch:
     even harder on Python with its normal re module, as there are several
     advanced regular expressions that are missing.
 
-    This is the case of this pattern:
+    This is the case of this pattern::
 
             '\\bSTRUCT_GROUP(\\(((?:(?>[^)(]+)|(?1))*)\\))[^;]*;'
 
@@ -121,6 +124,7 @@ class NestedMatch:
     replace nested expressions.
 
     The original approach was suggested by:
+
         https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5454322/python-how-to-match-nested-parentheses-with-regex
 
     Although I re-implemented it to make it more generic and match 3 types