From: rjh@cpax.org.uk   
      
   On 19/01/2023 2:48 pm, Stefan Ram wrote:   
   > ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:   
   >> Let's take a very simple task: This scanner for text files   
   >> has nothing more to do than to return every character,   
   >> except to strip the spaces at the end of a line.   
   >   
   >    Richard said that it matters what I need this for.   
   >   
   >    I'd like to implement a tiny markup language   
      
   Okay, BIG job with lots of complicated, so strive to keep each   
   part relatively simple if you ever hope to get it working. Do it   
   in whatever way comes most natural to your programming style,   
   because that's how /you/ can define 'simple'. You're using   
   Python, so I guess you're not overly concerned by performance, so   
   do it the way you personally find easiest. I'm guessing you'll go   
   for line by line and lean on Python's memory management.   
      
   But write this down somewhere: if, further down the line, your   
   parser turns out to be too slow and the profiler blames this bit,   
   rewriting it to go byte by byte might well be one of the ways you   
   could speed it up.   
      
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