Optimize away a len call in InlineProcessor

- just get the length once at the beginning. The gains are tiny but when the total number of calls to these is in the hundreds of thousands, it makes a sizeable difference.
Python-Markdown · Dec 21, 2020 · 4b83620 · 4b83620
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diff --git a/markdown/treeprocessors.py b/markdown/treeprocessors.py
@@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ def __handleInline(self, data, patternIndex=0):
         """
         if not isinstance(data, util.AtomicString):
             startIndex = 0
-            while patternIndex < len(self.inlinePatterns):
+            count = len(self.inlinePatterns)
+            while patternIndex < count:
                 data, matched, startIndex = self.__applyPattern(
                     self.inlinePatterns[patternIndex], data, patternIndex, startIndex
                 )