Is re thread-safe?

[Michael Hudson]

Benjamin Han <bhan at andrew.cmu.edu> writes:

> Just want to make sure before I start to change my code in major way - it'd
> be nice to do regex matching in parallel.

Um.  I doubt the sre engine releases the GIL during matching -- might
be wrong -- but unless you're on a multiprocessor I'm not quite sure
what "in parallel" would mean.

I don't think you'll encounter misbehaviour from using re in multiple
threads.

Cheers,
mwh

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