So I'm working on some file parsing and building up a stack of regular expressions that I need to use. I was thinking of dropping them in an external module. I was wondering.. if I put them in a file called regex.py like so :
import re re1 = ".. re2 = ".. and then do: rgx1 = re.compile(re1) rgx2 = re.compile(re2) and, in my script, parse.py py I do: from regex import * text = "bunch of stuff......." m = rgx1.search(text) Does the re get compiled when I import it, or every time I call it? Since I'm calling it often, I'd like to compile it once. Thanks! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
