On Mon, 2 Oct 2017 11:15:35 -0400
Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote:
> 
> I think there are opportunities for an explicit API for lazy compilation of 
> regular expressions, but I’m skeptical of the adoption curve making it 
> worthwhile.  But maybe I’m wrong!

We already have two caching schemes available in the re module: one
explicit and eager with re.compile(), one implicit and lazy with
re.search() and friends.  I doubt we really need a third one :-)

Regards

Antoine.


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