On 05/06/10 16:52, james_027 wrote: > hi, > > I was working with regex on a very large text, really large but I have > time constrained. Does python has any other regex library or string > manipulation library that works really fast? Have a look at http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/mxTextTools/doc/ it claims to be fast, Helmut.