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Mon May 9 23:30:54 CEST 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-May/053582.html

M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> On sre character classes: I don't think that these provide
> a good approach to XML lexical classes - custom functions
> or methods or maybe even a codec mapping the characters
> to their XML lexical class are much more efficient in
> practice.

That isn't my experience: functions that scan XML strings
are much slower than regular expressions. I can't imagine
how a custom codec could work, so I cannot comment on that.

Regards,
Martin

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