how often does re.compile compile?

[wade at lightlink.com]

Hello,
    I'm a recovering Perl user who's using the re module to parse a
bunch of text. (Miscellaneously tagged.)

Looking at other people's code, I notice folks tend to do their
re.compile()'s at the global level.  I've got one pattern that is used
only within one function. If I say re.compile() inside the function
definition, does the pattern get compiled afresh every time the function
is called?

Thanks --

-- Wade Leftwich





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