James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it relevant that Python can produce compiled expressions? I don't think > that there is such a thing with Perl.
The problem in python here is that it needs to always recompile the regexp. I would like to have a way to write a regexp as a constant and then python should compile that regexp to the byte-code file. This is a problem when one has a big amount of regexps. One example is the xmlproc parser in PyXML, This is not a problem in a program that continues to run long times, but I want short lived programs like command line apps. Of course we do have ways to go around that limitation, but that is just ugly. -- Ilpo Nyyssönen # biny # /* :-) */ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
