[cclib-devel] Parsing speed

[Noel O'B. <bao...@gm...>]

I checked this out some time ago, but not very comprehensively. This
time, I've compared the speed of:

   regular expressions
   in line
   line.find() == x
   line.startswith( ,x)
   line[x:y]

and line[x:y] is at least twice as fast as the other contenders. The
order (from memory) is roughly that listed above.

Regards,
   Noel