kj wrote:
My Python code is filled with assignments of regexp objects to
globals variables at the top level; e.g.:
_spam_re = re.compile('^(?:ham|eggs)$', re.I)
Don't like it. My Perl-pickled brain wishes that re.compile was
a memoizing method, so that I could use it anywhere, even inside
tight loops, without ever having to worry about the overhead of
regexp compilation.
Just use re.search(), etc. They already memoize the compiled regex objects.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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