regular expressions as hash keys in python

[kdt]

hi, bit of a strange question but does anyone know if there is a way of storing regular expressions as dictionary keys in python?

I ask because i need to match patterns of sequences against other sequences and the patterns themselves are the most important thing. If I could store the patterns in a dictionary, and then cycle through them to see if the patterns are in another sequence, this would be ideal.

thanks

[ghostdog74]

hi, bit of a strange question but does anyone know if there is a way of storing regular expressions as dictionary keys in python?

I ask because i need to match patterns of sequences against other sequences and the patterns themselves are the most important thing. If I could store the patterns in a dictionary, and then cycle through them to see if the patterns are in another sequence, this would be ideal.

thanks

you can put them values
eg

>>> d = { "1": "\d+" , '2': "\w+" }
>>> data = open("file").read()
>>> for i, j in d.iteritems():
...  print re.findall(i,data)
...
['1']
['2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2', '2']