[Python-Dev] Automatic flex interface for Python?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Guido> I haven't given up on the re module for fast scanners (see Tim's
    Guido> note on the speed of tokenizing 20,000 messages in mere minutes).
    Guido> Note that the Bayes approach doesn't *need* a trick to apply many
    Guido> regexes in parallel to the text.

Right.  I'm thinking of it in situations where you do need such tricks.
SpamAssassin is one such place.  I think Eric has an application (quickly
tokenizing the data produced by an external program, where the data can run
into several hundreds of thousands of lines) where this might be beneficial
as well.

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