Philip Semanchuk <phi...@semanchuk.com> writes: > > I second the suggestion to use rstrip(), but for future reference you > should also check out the compile() function in the re module. You > might want to time the code above against a version using a compiled > regex to see how much difference it makes.
The re module caches regex strings: >>> import re >>> foo = 'foo+' >>> key = str, foo, 0 >>> re._cache.get(key) >>> re.findall(foo, 'foo bar foooo') ['foo', 'foooo'] >>> re._cache.get(key) <_sre.SRE_Pattern object at 0x3fcb60> So it doesn't recompile a regex string which has already been compiled. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
