Matthew Barnett added the comment: If we were doing it today, maybe we wouldn't cache them, but, as you say, it's been like that for a long time. (The regex module also caches them, because the re module does.) Unless someone can demonstrate that it's a problem, I'd say just leave it as it is.
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