[issue19380] Optimize parsing of regular expressions

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

Actually "if x:" is slightly faster than "if x is not None:" on current implementation.

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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36649/re_parse_3.patch

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