In article <mailman.3549.1371576854.3114.python-l...@python.org>, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Out of curiousity have the tried the new regex module from pypi rather > than the stdlib version? A heck of a lot of work has gone into it see > http://bugs.python.org/issue2636 I just installed that and gave it a shot. It's *slower* (and, much higher variation from run to run). I'm too exhausted fighting with OpenOffice to get this into some sane spreadsheet format, so here's the raw timings: Built-in re module: 0:01.32 0:01.33 0:01.32 0:01.33 0:01.35 0:01.32 0:01.35 0:01.36 0:01.33 0:01.32 regex with flags=V0: 0:01.66 0:01.53 0:01.51 0:01.47 0:01.81 0:01.58 0:01.78 0:01.57 0:01.64 0:01.60 regex with flags=V1: 0:01.53 0:01.57 0:01.65 0:01.61 0:01.83 0:01.82 0:01.59 0:01.60 0:01.55 0:01.82 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
