On Sat, Oct 6, 2018, 18:40 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> The message I take from this is: > > - regex engines certainly can be written to support streaming data; > - but few of them are; > - and it is exceedingly unlikely to be able to easily (or at all) > retro-fit that support to Python's existing re module. > I don't know enough about the re module internals to make an informed guess about the difficulty. On a quick glance, it does seem to store most intermediate match state in explicit structs rather than on the call stack... -n >
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