On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 10:22 AM, <bruceg113...@gmail.com> wrote: > # Chris's Approach > # ---------------- > lines = ss.split("\n") > new_text = "\n".join(line[8:] for line in lines)
Looks like the approach you have may be fast enough already, but I'd wager the generator expression could be replaced with: map(operator.itemgetter(slice(8, None)), lines) for a modest speed-up. On the downside, this is less readable. Substitute itertools.imap for map if using Python 2.x. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list