Regular Expressions

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8m658n$ff0$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <nick_knight at my-deja.com> wrote:
>
>I am planning to embed Python into an app, wherby the app also needs to
>use regular expression matching insid the app - so it seems sencible to
>use the pythons own reg exp routines. I don't wish to invoke the
>interpriter everytime I need to do a match. How do you call the regular
>expression matching directly from C++.

Why don't you want to invoke the interpreter?  My understanding was that
once you initialized the interpreter, you incur little overhead for each
incremental use of it (of course, I could be wrong -- I haven't done any
embedding work).
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