regular expressions ... slow

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:37:18 -0200, Uwe Schmitt  
<rocksportrocker at googlemail.com> escribió:

> Is anobody aware of this post:  http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
> ?
>
> Are there any plans  to speed up Pythons regular expression module ?
> Or
> is the example in this artricle too far from reality ???

It's a pathological case. There are some known cases of horrible behaviour  
that are explained in many books on regular expressions. If you avoid  
those constructs  when writing the RE, you're reasonably safe. I for  
myself avoid using RE at all :)

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Gabriel Genellina