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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:04:55 -0600
Subject: Re: write a regex matches 800-555-1212, 555-1212, and also (800) 555-1212.
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On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 3:38 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> My understanding is that Python 3.3 has regressed the performance of ''.
> Surely the Python devs can speed the performance back up and, just for us,
> use less memory at the same time?

At least it will be stored as a Latin-1 '' for efficiency and not a
bloated UCS-4 ''.