Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > But you could have string objects (or a derivative) grow a > "compiled_regexp" attribute internally. That would make the core dependent on the re module, which I think would be a bad idea. Personally I like the way the compilation step is made at least somewhat explicit. Regular expressions are not strings; a string is just one way of representing a regular expression. There could potentially be other representations that compile to the same re object. Greg
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