On 2015-05-20 17:59, Peter Otten wrote: > Tim Chase wrote: > > wordlist[:] = [ # just lowercase all-alpha words > > word > > for word in wordlist > > if word.isalpha() and word.islower() > > ] > > Just a quick reminder: if the data is user-provided you have to > sanitize it:
Thus my sanitizing to isalpha()+islower() words in my sample. > I expect that performance will be dominated by I/O; if that's > correct the extra work of serializing the JSON should not do much > harm. I seem to recall that there was a change-over, that an older JSON library was particularly slow, but that a later replacement sped that up immensely. So performance may depend heavily on which version you're running. [to the OP] But yes, if you're trusting unsanitized data, Peter's suggestion would be the way to go. -tkc -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
