yeswanth <swamiyeswa...@yahoo.com> added the comment: @James test results for py3k
python -m timeit -s "$(printf "import re\ndef escape(s):\n return re.sub('([][.^$*+?{}\\|()])', '\\\1', s)")" 'escape("!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()")' 100000 loops, best of 3: 17.1 usec per loop python -m timeit -s "import re" 're.escape("!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()!@#$%^&*()")' 10000 loops, best of 3: 102 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