Alex Martelli wrote: > Tor Erik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I would be surprised if it is the naive: > > Yep -- it's "a mix between Boyer-Moore and Horspool with a few more > bells and whistles on the top", as documented and implemented in > Objects/stringlib/fastsearch.h in the Python sources and well discussed > and explained at http://effbot.org/zone/stringlib.htm . > > > Alex >
Ok. Two questions: 1. Is "a in b" simply an alias for "b.find(a)"? 2. Is this algorithm exclusive to Python 2.5, or is it contained in 2.4 aswell? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
