[FEEDBACK] Is this script efficient...is there a better way?

[Bob X]

Steve Holden wrote:
> "Bob X" <bobx at linuxmail.org> wrote ...
> [ ... ]
> 
>>Thank you very much...your shorter script did work. The keywords are all
>>"normal" english words that would not have any special characters. I
>>only added a re.IGNORECASE (since case doesn't matter to me) after a
>>quick search of the python docs.
>>
> 
> Was there any significant difference in the timings for the two different
> methods, and how does the number of different keywords affect the timings?
> 
I haven't tested...is there an easy way to time it...besides my going 
"that one ran faster"?

However, I had a chance to run your RE version today and it did very 
well. BTW..the line that looked like a debug statement was just a visual 
for me to see the script was actually doing something. I put in a 
counter that prints "lines written:", a where "a" is the counter. I do 
have one question on that. It writes each line sequentially like:

lines written: 1
lines written: 2
lines written: 3

Can I just get it to do it in place? Where the numbers are just replaced 
instead of scrolling? Just a thought...

Bob


Bob