Is there a way to really pickle compiled regular expressions in python?

Question

I have a python console application that contains 300+ regular expressions. The set of regular expressions is fixed for each release. When users run the app, the entire se

Answer 1

Just compile as you go - re module will cache the compiled re's even if you dont. Bump the re._MAXCACHE up to 400 or 500, the short jobs will only compile the re's they need, and the long jobs benefit from a big fat cache of compiled expressions - everybody's happy!