June 1, 2023
3:38 p.m.
On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 at 18:16, David Mertz, Ph.D. <david.mertz@gmail.com> wrote:
OK, fair enough. What about "has whitespace (including Unicode beyond ASCII)"?
import re r = re.compile(r'\s', re.U) r.search('ab\u2002cd') <re.Match object; span=(2, 3), match='\u2002'>
❯ py -m timeit -s "import re; r = re.compile(r'\s', re.U)" "r.search('ab\u2002cd')" 1000000 loops, best of 5: 262 nsec per loop Paul