Derek Martin: >Quite a lot faster than mine... even without using psyco.<
It's designed for Psyco. >However they don't appear to buy you much, given that the cases they optimize >would probably be rare, and the difference in execution time gained by the >optimization is not noticable to the user.< http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~lecroq/string/node7.html >Unless you're doing lots and lots of these in your application,< I don't agree. That's library code, so it has to be efficient and flexible, because it's designed to be used in many different situations (if you don't agree, then you can try to suggest a replacement of the C code of the string search of CPython written by effbot with some slower code). Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
