On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:57:07 PST, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Apparently the Python program, which applies the same re substitutions
> in the same order as the Perl program, takes 3 times as long to run.
> He thinks it's because of mutable strings in Perl -- that is, he
> thinks the string being modified (which is long, a whole file full of
> text) is modified in place in Perl, but has to be re-consed in Python.
Did he use re.compile?
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