Temporary fix to valid_identifier().
diff --git a/Lib/re.py b/Lib/re.py
index 6c3ee0b..b08f8af 100644
--- a/Lib/re.py
+++ b/Lib/re.py
@@ -231,16 +231,15 @@
result.append(char)
return string.join(result, '')
+_idprog = None
def valid_identifier(id):
- import string
- if len(id) == 0:
+ global _idprog
+ if not _idprog:
+ _idprog = compile(r"[a-zA-Z_]\w*$")
+ if _idprog.match(id):
+ return 1
+ else:
return 0
- if id[0] not in string.letters+'_':
- return 0
- for char in id[1:]:
- if not syntax_table[char] & word:
- return 0
- return 1
def compile(pattern, flags=0):
groupindex={}