James Y Knight <f...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: Show your speed test? Looks 2.5x faster to me. But I'm running this on python 2.6, so I guess it's possible that the re module's speed was decimated in Py3k.
python -m timeit -s "$(printf "import re\ndef escape(s):\n return re.sub('([][.^$*+?{}\\|()])', '\\\1', s)")" 'escape("!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()")' 100000 loops, best of 3: 18.4 usec per loop python -m timeit -s "import re" 're.escape("!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()")' 10000 loops, best of 3: 45.7 usec per loop ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2650> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com