Recursion in regular expressions

Hello.
There is a regular expression (for example)

 / \ (([^) (]+ | (? R))+ \) /X    
  (? R)  means a recursive link to the regular expression itself, where you can find a regular express processor supporting such recursion for Java or Python? 
 Standard  java.util.Regex  and the Python  regex  do not seem to support this mechanism. 
 Regular expression is taken.