Regular Expressions and Threads?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <3dd7li696x.fsf at amarok.cnri.reston.va.us>,
Andrew M. Kuchling <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote:
>aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) writes:
>>
>> checking for the existence of a match, that could cause problems.  (As
>> with anything else, the re module should be thread-safe, but individual
>> re objects probably are not.)
>
>No, individual re objects should be.  The MatchObject you get back
>from a matching operation contains references to the string, groups,
>and original regex object, but a RegexObject shouldn't ever change
>after it's been created.  Tim Peters put some effort into making the
>cache thread-safe.  Brian, can you post the relevant bits of code so
>we can see what's going on?

Oh, right, for some reason I thought the regex object contained the
match object (Perl-based brainfart).
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