Python example: possible speedup?

[Carel Fellinger]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic at srce.hr> wrote:
> "Tim Peters" <tim_one at email.msn.com> writes:

>> Was the Perl code to which you're comparing it as general as your
>> Python code?

why is it that all of a sudden Tim's postings don't make it to the newsgroup?
I don't recall having seen the above before, and i got the same impression in
other treads as well. And as you all know, whithout Tim's postings there is
hardly any point in reading the newsgroup at all:)

> Robert's solution is ideologically similar to the `grep' solution
> proposed below.

I seem to have missed this grep solution too. or was it part of Tim's posting?

-- 
groetjes, carel