Python slow for filter scripts

[Alex Martelli]

William Park wrote:

> Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote:
>> and I'm specifically reading the King James' Bible (an easily
>> available text so you can reproduct my results!) and writing
> 
> Can you post URL for the Bible?

I originally got it from some MySQL stuff by Paul DuBois and decided
it would make a good general dataset for reproducible tests and
benchmarks.  A little googling suggests that it comes from:

http://unbound.biola.edu/zips/index.cfm?lang=English

and specifically from the kjv.zip referenced there under the "King
James Version" anchor (unzipped, of course).


Alex