[pygtk] Re: [Tutor] pattern matching is too slow

[Vinay Reddy]

> I'd recommend yanking the regular expression compilation out of the inner
> loop, and just reuse the regex object after you compile it once.

Sorry, it was my mistake. The errror was elsewhere. I cleaned up my
code and suddently it started working fine. I guess python can do the
simple optimization of moving the regex compilation outside the while
loop.

> By the way, there are other things in this program that should be fixed.
> The way it reads lines from the file is non-idiomatic.  For an example of
> what people will usually do to go through a file's lines, see a tutorial
> like Alan Gauld's "Learning to Program":
> 
>     http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/tutfiles.htm
Thanks a lot for the link. The 'idiomatic' way is pretty elegant.

Regards,
Vinay