Bengt> To be fairer, I think you'd want to hoist the re compilation out
Bengt> of the loop.
The re module compiles and caches regular expressions, so I doubt it would
affect the runtime of either version.
Bengt> But also to be fairer, maybe include the overhead of splitting
Bengt> correctly, at least for the simple case regex in my example -- or
Bengt> is a you-goofed post for me in the usenet forwarding queues
Bengt> somewhere still? ;-)
I was just too lazy to incorporate (something like) your change. You will
note that I was also lazy enough to simply steal your XXXXX file. <wink>
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