On Dec 28, 7:53 am, "Matthew Franz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I get class Searcher(object) but can't for the life of me see why > (except to be intentionally obtuse) one would use the def > searcher(rex) pattern which I assure you would call with > searcher(r)(t) right? >
The whole point of the thread was performance across multiple searches for the one pattern. Thus one would NOT do searcher(r)(t) each time a search was required; one would do s = searcher(r) ONCE, and then do s(t) each time ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list