In message <d46338a8-d08c-449b-b656-a6cf9f6a6...@l28g2000yqd.googlegroups.com>, james_027 wrote:
> I was working with regex on a very large text, really large but I have > time constrained. “Fast regex” is a contradiction in terms. You use regexes when you want ease of definition and application, not speed. For speed, consider hand-coding your own state machine. Preferably in a compiled language like C. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
