[merge] python 2.5 fixes

[Aaron Bentley]

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John Arbash Meinel wrote:

> If you don't want to change the ElementTree sources (which I think we
> should, and contribute the changes upstream). I can modify
> 're.compile()' before importing elementtree, and then restore it afterwards.

Hmm.  Aren't a lot of our startup time issues due to regex compilation?

I wonder whether Python should make _sre.SRE_Pattern objects lazy?

Aaron
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