Re: Tcl faster than Perl/Python...but only with tricks...

In article <en61bi$a5k$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Stephan Kuhagen <stk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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def do():
f=file('bigfile')
r = re.compile(r'destroy', re.IGNORECASE)
line=f.readline()
while line!="":
if r.search(line):
print line.rstrip("\r\n")
line=f.readline()
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OTOH, nobody would write something like this in Python, since in the
tutorial shows you to use for...in or filter() (unfair trick! ;-) as soon
as you start learning Python. In Tcl I thinks it is natural to use
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Plenty of people--including book authors--*do* write
things like this in Python.
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