> s=re.sub(r'\n','\n'+spaces,s)
> s=re.sub(r'^',spaces,s)
> s=re.sub(r' *\n','\n',s)
> s=re.sub(r' *$','',s)
> s=re.sub(r'\n*$','',s)
>
> Is there any chance that these will be cached somewhere, and save
> me the trouble of having to declare some global re's if I don't
> want to have them recompiled on each function invocation?
>>> import this
...
Explicit is better than implicit
...
Sounds like what you want is to use the compile() call to compile
once, and then use the resulting objects:
re1 = re.compile(r'\n')
re2 = re.compile(r'^')
...
s = re1.sub('\n' + spaces, s)
s = re2.sub(spaces, s)
...
The compile() should be done once (outside loops, possibly at a
module level, as, in a way, they're constants) and then you can
use the resulting object without the overhead of compiling.
-tkc
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