Search substring in a string and get index of all occurances

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Wed Jun 21 08:01:34 EDT 2006


Maric Michaud wrote:

> Another variant, I feel this one more natural as it doesn't contain a
> C-looking infinite loop

doing things in a convoluted way because you think that non-infinite while-
loops are not natural?  you can get help for that, you know ;-)

> Actually it's even more efficient than Lundh's one for smaller strings (less
> than 1000 characters on my box) and slow down as strings go wider (slowly,
> seems to be a logarithmic progression) due to the split call resulting in
> creation of a new list.

and a potentially large number of new strings.  there's a lot of string copying
going on in there...

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