[Python-3000] bytes regular expression?

[Steven Bethard]

On 8/9/07, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at haypocalc.com> wrote:
> re module uses a dictionary to store compiled expressions and the key is a
> tuple (pattern, flags) where pattern is a bytes (str8) or str and flags is an
> int.

So why not just skip caching for anything that doesn't hash()?  If
you're really worried about efficiency, simply re.compile() the
expression once and don't rely on the re module's internal cache.

STeVe
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