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[Jacco van Dorp]

2018-05-07 21:56 GMT+02:00 Neil Girdhar <mistersheik at gmail.com>:
> Regular expressions are not just "an order of magnitude better"—they're
> asymptotically faster.  See
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%E2%80%93Morris%E2%80%93Pratt_algorithm
> for a non-regular-expression algorithm.

Hence my

>> [Jacco wrote, capitalized important words]
>> regular expressions would probably be AT LEAST an order of magnitude
>> better in speed, if it's a bottleneck to you. But pure python
>> implementation for this is a lot easier than it would be for the
>> current string.count().
>>

But I think my point stands that that's what you need to do if speed
is an issue, and python code is fine when it isn't.

Also, intersting read. Thanks.


Jacco