psss...I want to move from Perl to Python

[Rustom Mody]

True...

$ python
Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 14 2015, 16:09:02) 
[GCC 5.2.1 20151010] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import re
>>> re._MAXCACHE
100

But 100 is still large enough that for most normal users/uses re-compilation is pointless.