[Python-Dev] New regex module for 3.2? (original) (raw)

Fred Drake fdrake at acm.org
Fri Jul 9 22:14:06 CEST 2010


On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 3:35 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

I concentrated my efforts on the matching speed because regexes tend to be compiled only once, and are cached anyway, so I don't think it's as important.

I think most here will agree with that, but it might be good to keep in mind that the sre implementation has already made that trade-off once. I don't remember what the compilation slowdown was at the time, but I'd be surprised if Google can't find it, given sufficient fu.

-Fred

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