Regular expressions vs find?

[William Dandreta]

Hi David,

The message is titled Python GREP(... you can take a look if you like. It
was suggested that reg expr might be faster so give it a try.
Bill

David C. Ullrich wrote in message <01bfd93c$66c03180$2ace8ad1 at daves-dell>...
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>William Dandreta <wjdandreta at worldnet.att.net> wrote in article
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>> I recently read a message that suggested that using regular expressions
>> might be faster than the find function.
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> I would have guessed that if anything find would be faster, although
>I certainly could be wrong. Did someone say that using a regular expression
>would be _faster_, or did they actually say it was more _powerful_ or some
>such?
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