Most efficient method to search text?

[Michael Hudson]

bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) writes:

> Thanks. I wonder what would happen if you used word lists and files
> guaranteed *not* to have any hits, so they'd all be searched to the end.
> Or what was your mix (no of search words, length of files, hit distribution)?

Oh, no hits at all.  I was making up random words of length 10.

> >I'm sure Tim once said something along the lines of "Python doesn't
> >give much advice for getting good performance, beyond a not-so-subtle
> >hint to exploit dicts for all they're worth" but I can't find it now.
> >
> There's probably a lot to learn from the dictionary implementation code
> ... one of these days ;-)

Not as much as there is to be learnt from using it, I suspect.

Cheers,
M.

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