Wolfgang Rohdewald wrote: > On Wednesday, 17. June 2009, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> while text: >> for c in text: >> if c not in printable: return False > > that is one loop per character.
unless printable is a set > wouldn't it be faster to apply a regex to text? > something like > > while text: > if re.search(r'\W',text): return False > regex? Don't even start... Anyway, only cProfile and profile would know who is the fastest... And, is speed really that important for this case? Seems like premature optimization to me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
