Roy Smith wrote: > I've already discovered one (very) surprising thing -- if I build a dict > containing all my regexes (takes about 3 minutes on my PowerBook) and > pickle them to a file, re-loading the pickle takes just about as long as > compiling them did in the first place.
the internal RE byte code format is version dependent, so pickle stores the patterns instead. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
