how to avoid leading white spaces

[Duncan Booth]

"rurpy at yahoo.com" <rurpy at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 06/06/2011 09:29 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> Yes, but you have to pay the cost of loading the re engine, even if
>> it is a one off cost, it's still a cost,
> 
> ~$ time python -c 'pass'
> real     0m0.015s
> user     0m0.011s
> sys     0m0.003s
> 
> ~$ time python -c 'import re'
> real     0m0.015s
> user     0m0.011s
> sys     0m0.003s
> 
> Or do you mean something else by "loading the re engine"?

At least part of the reason that there's no difference there is that the 
're' module was imported in both cases:

C:\Python27>python -c "import sys; print('re' in sys.modules)"
True

C:\Python32>python -c "import sys; print('re' in sys.modules)"
True

Steven is right to assert that there's a cost to loading it, but unless you 
jump through hoops it's not a cost you can avoid paying and still use 
Python.

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Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com