On Sunday, January 31, 2016 at 9:18:31 AM UTC+5:30, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 30Jan2016 19:22, rusi wrote: > >Python 3.4.3+ (default, Oct 14 2015, 16:03:50) > >[GCC 5.2.1 20151010] on linux > >Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>>> python.el: native completion setup loaded > >>>> > >>>> import re > >>>> re._MAXCACHE > >512 > > > >Have you ever seen a program that uses 512 re's? > >I havent :-) > > I have. I've got one right here. It happens to be in perl, but it has been in > need of a recode in Python for a long time. It has about 3000 regexps. > > Of course they will be explicitly compiled in the recode. >
I would guess it needs more recoding than explicit compilation! Maybe something like http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/ Unfortunately no python binding so far :-( -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
