[Python-ideas] Support parsing stream with `re`

[Terry Reedy]

On 10/7/2018 12:32 AM, Ram Rachum wrote:

> Does that mean I'll have to write that character-by-character algorithm? 

I would not be surprised if you could make use of str.index, which scans 
at C speed.  See my answer to Nathaniel.


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Terry Jan Reedy