From: tjreedy at udel.edu (Terry Reedy)
Date: 25 Apr 1999 01:58:48 GMT
Subject: wrapped around the axle on regexpressions and file searching
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[code to find and process files ending in .log]

>2. is there a better, faster way of doing this??, 

For matching literal text, string.find, .rfind, .index, .rindex
are faster that regexes.  Since you want to match text at end only,
  if filename[-4:] == '.log'
will be even faster.

TJR





