Python idiom: Multiple search-and-replace

[Randall Hopper]

Fredrik Lundh:
 |Randall Hopper <aa8vb at yahoo.com> wrote:
 |> Is there a Python feature or standard library API that will get me less
 |> Python code spinning inside this loop?   re.multisub or equivalent? :-)
 |
 |haven't benchmarked it, but I suspect that this approach
 |is more efficient:
 |
 |<re.sub algorithm with replacement function>

Thanks!  It's much more efficient.  The 140 seconds original running time
was reduced to 11.6 seconds.  I can certainly live with that.

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Randall Hopper
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