John Nagle wrote: [ ... ] > Parsers have many named compile-time constants. Python doesn't support > named compile-time constants, and this is one of the places where we > have to pay the bill for that limitation. > > Something to think about when you need three more racks of servers > because the HTML parser is slow.
One technique used in such a case is to dispatch different case-handling
functions via a dictionary lookup.
Mel.
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