Curious to see alternate approach on a search/replace via regex

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 08.02.13 03:08, Ian Kelly wrote:
> I think what we're seeing here is that
> the time needed to look up the compiled regular expression in the
> cache is a significant fraction of the time needed to actually execute
> it.

There is a bug issue for this. See http://bugs.python.org/issue16389 .