2018-05-07 21:56 GMT+02:00 Neil Girdhar <mistersh...@gmail.com>: > Regular expressions are not just "an order of magnitude better"—they're > asymptotically faster. See > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%E2%80%93Morris%E2%80%93Pratt_algorithm > for a non-regular-expression algorithm.
Hence my >> [Jacco wrote, capitalized important words] >> regular expressions would probably be AT LEAST an order of magnitude >> better in speed, if it's a bottleneck to you. But pure python >> implementation for this is a lot easier than it would be for the >> current string.count(). >> But I think my point stands that that's what you need to do if speed is an issue, and python code is fine when it isn't. Also, intersting read. Thanks. Jacco _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
