# HG changeset patch
# User Ludovic Chabant <ludovic@chabant.com>
# Date 1396883526 25200
# Node ID 9416b2e6890c1b265cda13d06193a966d0d7902f
# Parent  8098c84efab05504a8e260750a25a12e3f6bee6b
Pre-compile regular expression.

diff -r 8098c84efab0 -r 9416b2e6890c wikked/utils.py
--- a/wikked/utils.py	Thu Apr 03 21:05:25 2014 -0700
+++ b/wikked/utils.py	Mon Apr 07 08:12:06 2014 -0700
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 
 endpoint_regex = re.compile(r'(\w[\w\d]*)\:(.*)')
+strip_endpoint_regex = re.compile(r'^(\w[\w\d]+)\:')
 
 
 class PageNotFoundError(Exception):
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@
 
 
 def get_absolute_url(base_url, url, quote=False):
-    base_url = re.sub(r'^(\w[\w\d]+)\:', '', base_url)
+    base_url = strip_endpoint_regex.sub('', base_url)
     if base_url[0] != '/':
         raise ValueError("The base URL must be absolute. Got: %s" % base_url)