On 06/08/2011 03:01 AM, Duncan Booth wrote: > "ru...@yahoo.com" <ru...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> On 06/06/2011 09:29 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> Yes, but you have to pay the cost of loading the re engine, even if >>> it is a one off cost, it's still a cost, [...] > At least part of the reason that there's no difference there is that the > 're' module was imported in both cases:
Quite right. I should have thought of that. [...] > Steven is right to assert that there's a cost to loading it, but unless you > jump through hoops it's not a cost you can avoid paying and still use > Python. I would say that it is effectively zero cost then. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
