Find and Replace Simplification

[Serhiy Storchaka]

21.07.13 14:29, Joshua Landau написав(ла):
> On 21 July 2013 08:44, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 20.07.13 20:03, Joshua Landau написав(ла):
>>
>>> Still, it seems to me that it should be optimizable for sensible
>>> builtin types such that .translate is significantly faster, as there's
>>> no theoretical extra work that .translate *has* to do that .replace
>>> does not, and .replace also has to rebuild the string a lot of times.
>>
>> You should analyze overall mapping and reorder items in right order (if it
>> possible), i.e. '&' should be replaced before '<' in html.escape. This extra
>> work is too large for most real input.
>
> I don't understand. What items are you reordering?

mapping.items(). We can implement s.translate({ord('<'): '<', 
ord('&'): '&'}) as s.replace('&', '&').replace('<', '<'), but 
not as s.replace('<', '<').replace('&', '&').