Ezio Melotti added the comment: > re.compile() calls _compile() which has the lru_cache decorator so it > will trigger it.
What's the point of using the lru_cache for compiled regexes? Unless I'm missing something, re.compile() should just return the compiled regex without going though lru_cache and needlessly wasting time and cache's slots. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16389> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
