Miles wrote: > On 7/24/07, Gordon Airporte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I did already find that it speeds things up to pre-test a line like >> >> if 'bets' or 'calls' or 'raises' in line: >> run the appropriate re's > > Be careful: unless this is just pseudocode, this Python doesn't do > what you think it does; it always runs the regular expressions, so any > speed-up is imaginary.
Yes, that's pseudo code even though I didn't really mean it that way when I typed it. The actual code uses the proper 'if foo in line or if bar in line:' form. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list