sed to python: replace Q

[Mel]

Raymond wrote:

> My other gripe is with the kludgy object-oriented regex functions.
> Couldn't these be better implemented in-line?  Why should I, as a coder,
> have to 're.compile()' when all the reference languages do this at compile
> time, from a much more straightforward and easy to read in-line
> function...

Because compile time doesn't do

    pattern = raw_input ("Pattern, please: ")
    saved_pattern = re.compile (pattern)

        Mel.