Python idiom: Multiple search-and-replace

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <20000414084023.A2012 at vislab.epa.gov>,
Randall Hopper  <aa8vb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>It's hard to believe we're burning 8.9 sec out of 11.6 seconds (77%) just
>in the simple loop overhead of iterating over lines.  Where's that JIT
>Python interpreter when you need it ;-)  

It's not the loop overhead per se so much as the readlines() overhead.
readline() is relatively inefficient.
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