best way to replace first word in string?

[Mike Meyer]

"hagai26 at gmail.com" <hagai26 at gmail.com> writes:

> I am looking for the best and efficient way to replace the first word
> in a str, like this:
> "aa to become" -> "/aa/ to become"
> I know I can use spilt and than join them
> but I can also use regular expressions
> and I sure there is a lot ways, but I need realy efficient one

Assuming you know the whitespace will be spaces, I like find:

new = "/aa/" + old[old.find(' '):]

As for efficiency - I suggest you investigate the timeit module, and
do some tests on data representative of what you're actaully going to
be using.

   <mike
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