[issue31580] Defer compiling regular expressions

[Stefan Behnel]

Stefan Behnel added the comment:

I'm also against changing re.compile() to not compile.

And I often write code like this:

    replace_whitespace = re.compile(r"\s+").sub

which is not covered by your current proposed change.

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nosy: +scoder

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