[Tutor] searching out keywords...

Kirby Urner urnerk@qwest.net
Fri, 08 Mar 2002 10:08:51 -0800


At 06:43 PM 3/8/2002 +0100, Javier JJ wrote:

>So, if performance is important, I'd say you'd be better off using something
>as simple as (on a command line)
>
>  cat log_fie | grep keyword > badwords_file
>
>This is much faster :-)

That's a good point.  If you have an OS that already includes
a lot of utilities like this, you don't have to code up a
Python thing, let alone slap a GUI over it.  Life at the
OS command line is sooo much simpler.

Kirby