idiom for RE matching

[mik3l3374 at gmail.com]

On Jul 19, 12:52 pm, Gordon Airporte <JHoo... at fbi.gov> wrote:
> I have some code which relies on running each line of a file through a
> large number of regexes which may or may not apply. For each pattern I
> want to match I've been writing
>
> gotit = mypattern.findall(line)
> if gotit:
>         gotit = gotit[0]
>         ...do whatever else...
>
> This seems kind of clunky. Is there a prettier way to handle this?
> I've also been assuming that using the re functions that create match
> objects is slower/heavier than dealing with the simple list returned by
> findall(). I've profiled it and these matches are the biggest part of
> the running time of the program, so I really would rather not use
> anything slower.

if your search is not overly complicated, i think regexp is not
needed. if you want, you can post a sample what you want to search,
and some sample input.