On Jun 23, 2010, at 9:10 AM, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote: > '_sre.SRE_Pattern' is what "re.compile" returns. > > Is that a mutable object, with state that changes > during the parse, or is it an immutable constant? Can > two threads use the same '_sre.SRE_Pattern' at the same time?
Ouch. I hope it is thread safe or I have some problems. But: since compiled regular expressions are automatically cached and used when one throws non compiled expressions into re, ISTM they have to be thread safe. Or we'd have tons of problems. --Stephen via iPad. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
