Fredrik Lundh: > or you could use re.finditer, which can be used for a lot more than just > splitting.
Having implemented some of them (and even invented algorithms like a new substring search, that I have appreciated) you know that string methods are simpler ways to efficiently perform specialized functions that are used often. Many string methods can be replaced by operations with REs, but they become less easy/clean to use, and maybe even slower. A specialized xsplit can be faster than re.finditer, and the syntax is better/handier. Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
