Re: [Python-Dev] re performance

2017-01-27 Thread MRAB
On 2017-01-27 22:15, Michael Felt wrote: On 27/01/2017 22:24, MRAB wrote: > I'm not bothered about it. It's quite a bit bigger than the re module, > and, anyway, keeping it as a third-party module gives me more freedom > to make updates, which are available for a range of Python versions. I

Re: [Python-Dev] re performance

2017-01-27 Thread Michael Felt
On 27/01/2017 22:24, MRAB wrote: I'm not bothered about it. It's quite a bit bigger than the re module, and, anyway, keeping it as a third-party module gives me more freedom to make updates, which are available for a range of Python versions. I tried packaging it (pip build) and ran into a

Re: [Python-Dev] re performance

2017-01-27 Thread MRAB
On 2017-01-27 17:03, Łukasz Langa wrote: On Jan 26, 2017, at 5:16 PM, MRAB > wrote: So, it seems as if regex already uses a better algorithm although I couldn't find any reference to any regex theoretical framework like dfa,

Re: [Python-Dev] re performance

2017-01-27 Thread Mark Lawrence via Python-Dev
On 27/01/2017 17:03, Łukasz Langa wrote: On Jan 26, 2017, at 5:16 PM, MRAB > wrote: So, it seems as if regex already uses a better algorithm although I couldn't find any reference to any regex theoretical framework like dfa,

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Re: [Python-Dev] re performance

2017-01-27 Thread Łukasz Langa
> On Jan 26, 2017, at 5:16 PM, MRAB wrote: >> So, it seems as if regex already uses a better algorithm although I >> couldn't find any reference to any regex theoretical framework like dfa, >> nfa, thompson multiple-state simulation or something. >> > It still uses