On Wednesday, 17. June 2009, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > while text: > for c in text: > if c not in printable: return False
that is one loop per character.
wouldn't it be faster to apply a regex to text?
something like
while text:
if re.search(r'\W',text): return False
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