-----Original Message----- From: Python-list [mailto:python-list- bounces+jcasale=activenetwerx....@python.org] On Behalf Of Malik Rumi Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 9:12 AM To: python-list@python.org Subject: Regular Expressions, Speed, Python, and NFA
> I am running some tests using the site regex101 to figure out the correct > regexs to use for a project. I was surprised at how slow it was, constantly > needing to increase the timeouts. I went Googling for a reason, and solution, > and found Russ Cox’s article from 2007: > https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html . I couldn’t understand why, if > this was even remotely correct, we don’t use NFA in Python, which led me > here: Do you have any sample data you can share? -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
