union in Python

[Michael Hudson]

bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) writes:

> I wonder why find doesn't take advantage of the same thing, whatever
> it is (Boyer-Moore? or some running fifo window hash
> check?). Probably the usual ...  people who can do it are too busy
> to do it in free time, and no-one's throwing money ;-)

I really don't think it's expected that people are using str.find with
data big enough for this to make a difference.  There's mxTextTools
(at least) for that.

Cheers,
mwh

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