On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Mats Peterson <matsp...@aim.com> wrote: > Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Mats Peterson <matsp...@aim.com> wrote: >>> A moderator who calls himself “animuson” on Stack Overflow doesn’t >>> want to face the truth. He has deleted all my postings regarding Python >>> regular expression matching being extremely slow compared to Perl. >>> Additionally my account has been suspended for 7 days. Such a dickwad. >> >> And this matters... how? What are we supposed to do about it? We are >> not the Python Secret Underground, which emphatically does not exist. >> >> ChrisA > > You aren’t supposed to do squat about it. I just wanted to mention it > to the Python evangelists, who need to see the light.
It's well known that regular expressions are slow. I wouldn't know how they compare to Perl, which I don't use. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
