[justlurking]

I've been writing in Bash and Perl for the past 5 weeks... While I love it, parsing custom log files without any real standards can really wear you out!

I used to script in Perl. Then, I rewrote one of my workhorse scripts (coincidentally, a log file analyzer) in Python. It ran in 1/3rd of the time.

I use regular expressions heavily. The re module in Python seems to be a lot faster than Perl.

[scripter]

Thanks. I’ve been playing with Python more lately and didn’t think it was any faster. Will take a look.