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from timeit import timeit
from re import search, DOTALL
def partition_find(string, start, end):
return string.partition(start)[2].rpartition(end)[0]
def re_find(string, start, end):
# applying re.escape to start and end would be safer
return search(start + '(.*)' + end, string, DOTALL).group(1)
def index_find(string, start, end):
return string[string.find(start) + len(start):string.rfind(end)]
# The wikitext of "Alan Turing law" article form English Wikipeida
# https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Turing_law&action=edit&oldid=763725886
string = """..."""
start = '==Proposals=='
end = '==Rival bills=='
assert index_find(string, start, end) \
== partition_find(string, start, end) \
== re_find(string, start, end)
print('index_find', timeit(
'index_find(string, start, end)',
globals=globals(),
number=100_000,
))
print('partition_find', timeit(
'partition_find(string, start, end)',
globals=globals(),
number=100_000,
))
print('
from timeit import timeit
from re import search, DOTALL
def partition_find(string, start, end):
return string.partition(start)[2].rpartition(end)[0]
def re_find(string, start, end):
# applying re.escape to start and end would be safer
return search(start + '(.*)' + end, string, DOTALL).group(1)
def index_find(string, start, end):
return string[string.find(start) + len(start):string.rfind(end)]
# The wikitext of "Alan Turing law" article form English Wikipeida
# https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alan_Turing_law&action=edit&oldid=763725886
string = """..."""
start = '==Proposals=='
end = '==Rival bills=='
assert index_find(string, start, end) \
== partition_find(string, start, end) \
== re_find(string, start, end)
print('index_find', timeit(
'index_find(string, start, end)',
globals=globals(),
number=100_000,
))
print('partition_find', timeit(
'partition_find(string, start, end)',
globals=globals(),
number=100_000,
))
print('re_find', timeit(
're_find(string, start, end)',
globals=globals(),
number=100_000,
))
Result:
index_find 0.35047444528454114
partition_find 0.5327825636197754
re_find 7.552149639286381
re_find was almost 20 times slower than index_find in this example.