On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Gilmeh Serda <gilmeh.ser...@nothing.here.invalid> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:17:57 -0400, Larry Martell wrote: > >> This code needs to process many tens of 1000's of files, and it runs >> often, so it needs to run very fast. Needless to say, my change has made >> it take 2x as long. Can anyone see a way to improve that? > > Don't use RegEx search? > > My version 361, and a simple benchmarking thing, tells me it's about 2.7 > times slower than "if ... in ..." on 1,000,000 loops.
Without the regex how would you suggest I search for '_M\d+_' efficiently? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list