Issue #27800: Document limitation and workaround for multiple RE repetitions

Doc/library/re.rst

@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ how the regular expressions around them are interpreted. Regular
 expression pattern strings may not contain null bytes, but can specify
 the null byte using a ``\number`` notation such as ``'\x00'``.
 
+Repetition qualifiers (``*``, ``+``, ``?``, ``{m,n}``, etc) cannot be
+directly nested. This avoids ambiguity with the non-greedy modifier suffix
+``?``, and with other modifiers in other implementations. To apply a second
+repetition to an inner repetition, parentheses may be used. For example,
+the expression ``(?:a{6})*`` matches any multiple of six ``'a'`` characters.
+
 
 The special characters are: