Guru advice needed for mxTextTools

[Kragen Sitaker]

Pekka Niiranen <krissepu at vip.fi> writes:
> I am trying to optimize a function that searches nested strings from
> set of (allmost) flat files (about 2 MB each) . If I use regular
> expressions, I must
> fix the amount of nesting:

It sounds like you want to build a parser; I haven't done this in
Python, but if I did, my first thought would be to look at SPARK to
see if it's any good.