4 Jun
2014
4 Jun
'14
7:05 p.m.
Hello,
On Wed, 04 Jun 2014 19:49:18 +0300 Serhiy Storchaka storchaka@gmail.com wrote:
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But show me real-world case for that. Common usecase is scanning string left-to-right, that should be done using iterator and thus O(N). Right-to-left scanning would be order(s) of magnitude less frequent, as and also handled by iterator.
html.HTMLParser, json.JSONDecoder, re.compile, tokenize.tokenize don't use iterators. They use indices, str.find and/or regular expressions. Common use case is quickly find substring starting from current position using str.find or re.search, process found token, advance position and repeat.
That's sad, I agree.
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