New contributor @mdroberts1243 encountered an interesting problem in
which the argument they had named "column_underscore_and_page_addressing"
simply couldn't be used; I discovered that internally this had been
transformed into "column_underscore∧page_addressing", because QSTR
makes _ENTITY_ stand for the same thing as &ENTITY; does in HTML.
This might be nice for some things, but we don't want it here!
I was unable to find a sensible way to "escape" and prevent this entity
coding, so instead I ripped out support for the _and_ and _or_ escapes.
Lightly tested:
* no matches (catch-all)
* standard address single address matches (even and odd positions)
* standard address mask matches
* only tested that extended doesn't match non-extended
Tested & working:
* Send standard packets
* Receive standard packets (1 FIFO, no filter)
Interoperation between SAM E54 Xplained running this tree and
MicroPython running on STM32F405 Feather with an external
transceiver was also tested.
Many other aspects of a full implementation are not yet present,
such as error detection and recovery.
Discord user Folknology encountered a problem building with Python 3.6.9,
`TypeError: ord() expected a character, but string of length 0 found`.
I was able to reproduce the problem using Python3.5*, and discovered that
the meaning of the regular expression `"|."` had changed in 3.7. Before,
```
>>> [m.group(0) for m in re.finditer("|.", "hello")]
['', '', '', '', '', '']
```
After:
```
>>> [m.group(0) for m in re.finditer("|.", "hello")]
['', 'h', '', 'e', '', 'l', '', 'l', '', 'o', '']
```
Check if `words` is empty and if so use `"."` as the regular expression
instead. This gives the same result on both versions:
```
['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o']
```
and fixes the generation of the huffman dictionary.
Folknology verified that this fix worked for them.
* I could easily install 3.5 but not 3.6. 3.5 reproduced the same problem