[issue31580] Defer compiling regular expressions
Raymond Hettinger
report at bugs.python.org
Mon Sep 25 22:39:48 EDT 2017
Raymond Hettinger added the comment:
ISTM, the whole point is to compile in advance. When I worked during high frequency trading, that was essential to news trading where you *really* didn't want to pay the compilation cost at the time the regex was used. This proposal takes away the user's only control over when the regex is compiled.
FWIW, if a user doesn't explicitly invoke re.compile() and instead uses a straight call to re.search(pattern, s), then the pattern is compiled on first-use and cached for future use. In other words, we already have a simple and clear way to auto-compile on first use. I recommend against taking away the only option to specify otherwise.
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nosy: +rhettinger
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