[Python-Dev] _socket efficiencies ideas

[Greg Ewing]

Marcus Mendenhall <marcus.h.mendenhall@vanderbilt.edu>:

> Just: if (string[0]=='<' && not strncmp(string,"<numeric>",9))
> {whatever}

By the same token, checking whether the first char is
a digit ought to weed out about 99.999% of all
non-numeric domain name addresses.

If this is even a problem, which I doubt. We're
talking about something called from Python, for
goodness sake...

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