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Re: Find and Replace Simplification

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On 21 July 2013 13:28, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:
> 21.07.13 14:29, Joshua Landau написав(ла):
>
>> On 21 July 2013 08:44, Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> 20.07.13 20:03, Joshua Landau написав(ла):
>>>
>>>> Still, it seems to me that it should be optimizable for sensible
>>>> builtin types such that .translate is significantly faster, as there's
>>>> no theoretical extra work that .translate *has* to do that .replace
>>>> does not, and .replace also has to rebuild the string a lot of times.
>>>
>>>
>>> You should analyze overall mapping and reorder items in right order (if
>>> it
>>> possible), i.e. '&' should be replaced before '<' in html.escape. This
>>> extra
>>> work is too large for most real input.
>>
>>
>> I don't understand. What items are you reordering?
>
>
> mapping.items(). We can implement s.translate({ord('<'): '&lt;', ord('&'):
> '&amp;'}) as s.replace('&', '&amp;').replace('<', '&lt;'), but not as
> s.replace('<', '&lt;').replace('&', '&amp;').

I see -- that won't always be the case though, as there can be "loops"
aka "ab" -> "ba".

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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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