> Hi folks,
> I'm trying to do something like this:
>>>> evildict= {'good' : 'bad' , 'love' : 'hate' , 'God': 'Satan'}
>>>> def make_evil(text)
> ... for a in evildict:
> ... text=text.replace(a, evildict[a])
> ... return text
>
> This works fine, but it soon gets too slow as the size of text and dictionary
> begin to grow.
> Can you guys suggest me a way to make it faster?
Would it help to do it in linear fashion? Reading the source text one
word at a time, doing a dict check for that word, then flushing that
word to output?
I'm wondering whether text.replace has to shove oodles of text to the
right in memory when you replace a shorter word with a longer word.
Someone else on the list may know.
Alan
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