Copy of Qiskit/qiskit#8235

Co-authored-by: Matthew Treinish <mtreinish@kortar.org>
rathishcholarajan · Jul 5, 2022 · 2bee5dd · 2bee5dd
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Showing 1 changed file with 3 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/qiskit_ibm_runtime/qpy/interface.py b/qiskit_ibm_runtime/qpy/interface.py
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 """
     + "$"
 )
+VERSION_PATTERN_REGEX = re.compile(VERSION_PATTERN, re.VERBOSE | re.IGNORECASE)
 
 
 @deprecate_arguments({"circuits": "programs"})
@@ -150,7 +151,7 @@ def dump(  # type: ignore[no-untyped-def]
     else:
         raise TypeError(f"'{program_type}' is not supported data type.")
 
-    version_match = re.search(VERSION_PATTERN, __version__, re.VERBOSE | re.IGNORECASE)
+    version_match = VERSION_PATTERN_REGEX.search(__version__)
     version_parts = [int(x) for x in version_match.group("release").split(".")]
     header = struct.pack(
         formats.FILE_HEADER_PACK,  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
@@ -233,7 +234,7 @@ def load(  # type: ignore[no-untyped-def]
     )
     if data.preface.decode(common.ENCODE) != "QISKIT":
         raise QiskitError("Input file is not a valid QPY file")
-    version_match = re.search(VERSION_PATTERN, __version__, re.VERBOSE | re.IGNORECASE)
+    version_match = VERSION_PATTERN_REGEX.search(__version__)
     version_parts = [int(x) for x in version_match.group("release").split(".")]
 
     header_version_parts = [data.major_version, data.minor_version, data.patch_version]