re vs. sgmllib (was Re: Moving from Perl to Python)

[Robert Roy]

Frederik at PythonWare has an extension called sgmlop that speeds
things up tremendously.

see http://www.pythonware.com/madscientist/

Robert Roy

On 26 Sep 1999 05:39:00 GMT, aahz at netcom.com (Aahz Maruch) wrote:

>In article <000601bf07cb$5e1ede20$602d153f at tim>,
>Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>>
>>Regexps are not Python's forte, and all of speed, clarity and
>>maintainability will increase in proportion to your zeal in purging them.
>
>That sounds like a Call To Action for rewriting sgmllib to use something
>other than re.  Has anyone started any work in this area?
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