Grep in Python

[coolslife]

Kragen Sitaker <kragen at pobox.com> wrote in message news:<83it5giuy2.fsf at panacea.canonical.org>...
> coolslife at yahoo.com (coolslife) writes:
> > I saw that lots of people have implemented their own version of grep
> > and most have called it "pygrep". (Am I right about that?). Since this
> > is a resource consuming activity,  does anyone have any idea what
> > might be a optimum way to implement this?
> 
> See "NR-grep: A Fast and Flexible Pattern Matching Tool", by Gonzalo
> Navarro, at http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~gnavarro/ps/spe01.ps.gz for how
> to search text fast.


Thanx for your replies.

I own the 1st Edition of that book. SO I guess I will have to go look
up @ a book store.

the MR-grep is a nice article.but I am looking for a simple grep.

are there any other resources I can look up?