[Python-Dev] Revising RE docs (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 1 06:10:03 CEST 2005

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

But you could have string objects (or a derivative) grow a "compiledregexp" attribute internally.

That would make the core dependent on the re module, which I think would be a bad idea.

Personally I like the way the compilation step is made at least somewhat explicit. Regular expressions are not strings; a string is just one way of representing a regular expression. There could potentially be other representations that compile to the same re object.

Greg

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