matching one time through a loop

[Sean 'Shaleh' Perry]

On 30-May-2002 Delaney, Timothy wrote:
>> From: Corey G. [mailto:ctgaff at attbi.com]
>> 
>> This comment made me realize just how little I know about 
>> Python.  Well,
>> it's only been 3 days now, but none the less.
>> 
>> By moving the regex out of the loop and only compiling it once, the
>> script is 3x faster than before and now out performs my original Perl
>> script.
> 
> This needs to be added to the comparisons page ;)
> 

depends, was it naive perl too?