help make it faster please

[Sybren Stuvel]

Bengt Richter enlightened us with:
> I meant somestring.split() just like that -- without a splitter
> argument.  My suspicion remains ;-)

Mine too ;-)

Sybren
-- 
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? 
                                             Frank Zappa