here's a potentially nifty way of adding decorators to input args for python:
def a(int(arg1), arg2, tuple(arg3)):
#arg1 is an int (or was converted to an int)
#arg2's type is not known (ie this decoration is optional)
#arg3 is a tuple (may have been a list coming in, but is now a t
you may not be able to beat perl's regex speed, but you can take some steps to
speed up your python program using map and filter
here's a modified python program that will do your search faster
#!/usr/bin/env python
import re
r = re.compile(r'destroy', re.IGNORECASE)
def stripit(x):
return
