"codecraig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <snip> > Well so far from what I have found, Perl is faster than Python for > RegEx, although perl is harder to read.
Yawn How about Python being easier to *write*? It never ceases to amaze me. It takes days, weeks, months, sometimes even years to write significantly useful software. And yet so many seem to think it is worthy to bother over the seconds that might be saved at execution time. If one were to achieve a mere percentage point or two in improving the "write" efficiency of software - think how much more the world gains in software quality and quantity. How about man hours saved? Why does anyone still waste so much angst over execution speed? I doubt the total execution time for all the RegEx queries you ever ran took as much time as you just wasted on your little experiment. Thomas Bartkus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
