Re: [Python-ideas] re.compile_lazy - on first use compiled regexes

Wouldn't it make sense to add a way to pickle or marshal compiled REs ?

The precompiled REs could then be loaded directly from the pickle, avoiding the compiling overhead on startup.

as far as i can tell that would need regex as part of the syntax to make sense fort use in modules i dont think such a change would be accepted and i dont even what to deal with the potential bikeshedding for such an integration