In article <mailman.6859.1392319225.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
> On 02/13/2014 11:09 AM, Mark Lawrence wrote: > > > > All I can say is that if you're worried about the speed of a single line of > > code like the above then you've got > > problems. Having said that, I suspect that using an index to extract a > > single character has to be faster than using a > > slice, but I haven't run these through a profiler yet :) > > The problem with using indices in the code sample is that if the string is 0 > or 1 characters long you'll get an > exception instead of a False. My re.match() solution handles those edge cases just fine. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
