Switch KernRe::add_regex() to a try..except block to avoid looking up each regex twice. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx> --- scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_re.py | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_re.py b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_re.py index e81695b273bf..a467cd2f160b 100644 --- a/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_re.py +++ b/scripts/lib/kdoc/kdoc_re.py @@ -29,12 +29,10 @@ class KernRe: """ Adds a new regex or re-use it from the cache. """ - - if string in re_cache: + try: self.regex = re_cache[string] - else: + except KeyError: self.regex = re.compile(string, flags=flags) - if self.cache: re_cache[string] = self.regex -- 2.49.0