Can I beat perl at grep-like processing speed?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Nick Craig-Wood wrote:

>>  #!/usr/bin/env python
>>  import re
>>  r = re.compile(r'destroy', re.IGNORECASE)
>>
>>  for s in file('bigfile'):
>>    if r.search(s): print s.rstrip("\r\n")

footnote: if you're searching for literal strings with Python 2.5, using "in" is a
lot faster than using re.search.

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