James Y Knight <f...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment: Right you are, it seems that python's regexp implementation is terribly slow when doing replacements with a substitution in them. (fixing the broken test, as you pointed out changed the timing to 97.6 usec vs the in-error-reported 18.3usec.)
Oh well. I still think it's crazy not to use re for this in its own module. Someone just needs to fix re to not be horrifically slow, too. :) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue2650> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
