On Mar 13, 9:31 pm, "Gabriel Genellina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > En Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:19:53 -0300, Arnaud Delobelle > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > > On Mar 13, 7:36 pm, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> The re library caches the compiled regexp, I think. > > > That would surprise me. > > How can re.search know that string.lower(search) is the same each > > time? Or else there is something that I misunderstand. > > It does. > > py> import re > py> x = re.compile("ijk") > py> y = re.compile("ijk") > py> x is y > True > > Both, separate calls, returned identical results. You can show the cache:
OK I didn't realise this. But even so each time there is the cost of looking up the regexp string in the cache dictionary. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
