Re: Curious to see alternate approach on a search/replace via regex

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Subject	Re: Curious to see alternate approach on a search/replace via regex
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On 2013-02-06 7:04 PM, "Steven D'Aprano"
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:

>I dispute those results. I think you are mostly measuring the time to
>print the result, and I/O is quite slow.

Good call, hadn't even considered that.

>My tests show that using urlparse
>is 33% faster than using regexes, and far more understandable and
>maintainable.

Couldn't agree more about it being more maintainable and on second thought
would gladly give up a negligible performance hit for it.

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Re: Curious to see alternate approach on a search/replace via regex Demian Brecht <demianbrecht@gmail.com> - 2013-02-07 07:08 -0800

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