Perl Vs Python

[Jp Calderone]

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 08:17:11PM +0200, Bo M. Maryniuck wrote:
> On Thursday 27 February 2003 14:28, Alex Martelli wrote:
> > Yes, but, the fact that regular expressions are not "integrated"
> > in Python (you have to "import re" to get them) is not really a
> > problem at all.  
> 
> <CorrectMeIfIAmWrong>
> 	Problem is that regexp in Python is much slower than in Perl. And optimising 
> 	Python regexps is only in one way: "Don't do this".
> </CorrectMeIfIAmWrong>
> 

  Prithee, why is this a problem?

  Jp

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