Can I rely on...

[MRAB]

Emanuele D'Arrigo wrote:
[snip]
> If the answer is no, am I right to state the in the case portrayed
> above the only way to be safe is to use the following code instead?
> 
> for item in compiledPatterns:
>    if(item.pattern == pattern):
>         print("The compiled pattern is stored.")
>         break
> 
Correction to my last post: this isn't the same as using 'in'.

It should work, but remember that it compares only the pattern and not
any flags you might have used in the original re.compile().