Hi all,
I have a regex that has no use outside of a particular function. From
an encapsulation point of view it should be scoped as restrictively as
possible. Defining it inside the function certainly works, but if
re.compile () is run every time the function is called, it isn't such a
good idea after all. E.g.
def entries (l):
r = re.compile ('([0-9]+) entr(y|ies)')
match = r.search (l)
if match: return match.group (1)
So the question is: does "r" get regex-compiled once at py-compile time
or repeatedly at entries() run time?
Frederic
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