Which is faster...find or re. ?

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Fri Aug 2 14:10:34 EDT 2002


In article <7d3dc526.0208020948.15403600 at posting.google.com>,
Fearless Freep <joconnor at cybermesa.com> wrote:
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>I'm doing some parsing on HTML files and lookfor for particular tags.

String functions/methods are usually faster than regular expressions.
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