Another option could be something like this:
You can add ids to your regexp, so you can retrive them latter using
groupdict.
Once you have the ids in place, you can join in a new regexp with the "|"
operator which is not greedy, it will stop after the first match.
pattern = (?P<section>re_section)|?P<name>re_section|...
Then you can have another structure with the previous id and the actions you
want to perform on them.
actions = {'section': lambda r: r[18:-5],
'name': lambda r: r[6:-1]),
...}
Finally you just need to iterate over the result. In this case the
dictionary will have only one pair.
result = pattern.search(line)
if result:
for key,val in result.groupdict().iteritems():
actions[key](val)
....
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