Wai Yip <auror...@gmail.com> wrote: > I started with ctypes because it is the battery included with the > Python standard library. My code is very fluid and I'm looking for > easy opportunity to optimize it. One example is to find the longest > common prefix among two strings. Right now I am comparing it character > by character with pure Python. It seems like an ideal low hanging > fruit. With ctype I can rewriting a few lines of Python into a few > lines of C. All the tools are available and no third party library is > needed.
Alternatively you could just use os.path.commonprefix(). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
