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Compiling the Expressions

Explore how to compile regular expressions with Python's re module to create reusable pattern objects. Understand how compiling improves performance by caching patterns and learn to apply flags for special features. This lesson helps you optimize text searches by compiling regex patterns effectively.

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The re module allows us to “compile” the expressions that we are searching for frequently. This will basically allow us to turn our expression into a SRE_Pattern object. We can then use that ...