best way to determine sequence ordering?

[Steven Bethard]

nikie wrote:
> That's what this thread was all about. Now, I don't really see what you
> are trying to say: Are you still trying to convince the OP that he
> should write a Python function like one of those you suggested, for
> performance reasons?

Sure, if it really matters.  Code it in C, and you can do better than 
.index().  But I don't think it really matters. ;-)

STeVe