re module -- case insensitive matching.

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <roy-3281DF.15202825012000 at netnews.nyu.edu>,
Roy Smith  <roy at popmail.med.nyu.edu> wrote:

>Is there any difference between:
>  re.compile ('[a-zA-Z]*')
>and
>  re.compile ('[a-z]*', re.I)

Yup.  Use the former; it's faster.  For the latter, the string has to be
converted before the regex touches it.
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