Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote: [snip]
If the answer is no, am I right to state the in the case portrayed above the only way to be safe is to use the following code instead?for item in compiledPatterns: if(item.pattern == pattern): print("The compiled pattern is stored.") break
Correction to my last post: this isn't the same as using 'in'. It should work, but remember that it compares only the pattern and not any flags you might have used in the original re.compile(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
