Charles-François Natali added the comment: > The docs don't even mention that re.compile() actually uses a cache.
Actually it does: """ re.compile(pattern, flags=0) Note The compiled versions of the most recent patterns passed to re.match(), re.search() or re.compile() are cached, so programs that use only a few regular expressions at a time needn’t worry about compiling regular expressions. """ Now, I agree that it's definitely suboptimal... ---------- nosy: +neologix _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue17441> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
