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Re: Find and Replace Simplification

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On 19 July 2013 18:29, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:
> 19.07.13 19:22, Steven D'Aprano написав(ла):
>
>> I also expect that the string replace() method will be second fastest,
>> and re.sub will be the slowest, by a very long way.
>
>
> The string replace() method is fastest (at least in Python 3.3+). See
> implementation of html.escape() etc.

def escape(s, quote=True):
    if quote:
        return s.translate(_escape_map_full)
    return s.translate(_escape_map)

I fail to see how this supports the assertion that str.replace() is
faster. However, some quick timing shows that translate has a very
high penalty for missing characters and is a tad slower any way.

Really, though, there should be no reason for .translate() to be
slower than replace -- at worst it should just be "reduce(lambda s,
ab: s.replace(*ab), mapping.items()¹, original_str)" and end up the
*same* speed as iterated replace. But the fact that it doesn't have to
re-build the string every replace means that theoretically it should
be a lot faster.

¹ I realise this won't actually work for several reasons, and doesn't
support things like passing in lists as mappings, but you could
trivially support the important builtin types² and fall back to the
original for others, where the pure-python __getitem__ is going to be
the slowest part anyway.

² List, tuple, dict, str, bytes -- so basically just mappings and
ordered iterables

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Find and Replace Simplification Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 09:22 -0400
  Re: Find and Replace Simplification Novocastrian_Nomad <gregory.j.baker@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 06:38 -0700
  Re: Find and Replace Simplification John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2013-07-19 14:28 +0000
  Re: Find and Replace Simplification Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-19 16:22 +0000
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 20:29 +0300
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2013-07-19 13:08 -0500
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-07-19 17:44 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-19 18:45 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-20 12:16 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-20 14:48 +0300
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-20 14:57 +0300
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-07-20 08:41 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Devyn Collier Johnson <devyncjohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-07-20 08:50 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-20 18:03 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-20 14:04 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-20 19:37 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-20 19:41 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-07-20 17:56 -0400
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-20 23:33 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-21 10:44 +0300
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-21 12:29 +0100
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-21 15:28 +0300
    Re: Find and Replace Simplification Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-21 13:49 +0100

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