Newbie question: files..

[Hrvoje Niksic]

"Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> writes:

> It isn't slower than Perl in my experience (the contrary) -- but then I use
> Perl for the little bit of serious text-crunching and regexp-slinging that
> comes up in my work.  Perl put extraordinary effort into implementing those
> efficiently; outside of them, I find that Python is typically
> faster.

How do you measure that?  So far I haven't seen an example of Python
code that would be faster than its Perl equivalent.

> try-timing-a-program-with-bigints<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim

Huh?