[Python-ideas] Matching multiple regex patterns simultaneously

[Andrey Fedorov]

So a couple of libraries (Django being the most popular that comes to mind)
try to match a string against several regex expressions. I'm wondering if
there exists a library to "merge" multiple compiled regex expressions into a
single lookup. This could be exposed in a interface like:

http://gist.github.com/319905


So for an example:

rd = ReDict()

rd['^foo$'] = 1
rd['^bar*$'] = 2
rd['^bar$'] = 3

assert rd['foo'] == [1]
assert rd['barrrr'] == [2]
assert rd['bar'] == [2,3]

The naive implementation I link is obviously inefficient. What would be the
easiest way to go about compiling a set of regex-es together, so that they
can be matched against a string at the same time? Are there any standard
libraries that do this I'm not aware of?

Cheers,
Andrey
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