What is Python?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrn8shsrn.ob.tim at degree.ath.cx>,
Tim Hammerquist <tim at degree.ath.cx> wrote:
>
>Regexps are optimized for matching text against patterns as
>quickly and efficiently as possible, whereas you can only have so many:
>
>	if 'x' in word:
>
>statements before you're bloating your code unnecessarily.  

True.  OTOH, many Perl programmers are so focused on regexes that they
would try to implement the following code with regexes:

dict = { ... }
for word in words:
  if dict.has_key(word):
    ...
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