C# FindAll VS Where Speed

The FindAll method of the List<T> class actually constructs a new list object, and adds results to it. The Where extension method for IEnumerable<T> will simply iterate over an existing list and yield an enumeration of the matching results without creating or adding anything (other than the enumerator itself.) Given a small set, the two … Read more

Python ElementTree module: How to ignore the namespace of XML files to locate matching element when using the method “find”, “findall”

Instead of modifying the XML document itself, it’s best to parse it and then modify the tags in the result. This way you can handle multiple namespaces and namespace aliases: from io import StringIO # for Python 2 import from StringIO instead import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET # instead of ET.fromstring(xml) it = ET.iterparse(StringIO(xml)) for _, … Read more

Regex not matching all the paranthesis substrings [duplicate]

Parenthesis in regular expressions are used to indicate groups. If you want to match them literally, you must ‘escape’ them: import re found = re.findall(r’\(.*?\)’, text) print(found) Outputs: [‘(not all)’, ‘(They will cry “heresy” and other accusations of “perverting” the doctrines of the Bible, while they themselves believe in a myriad of interpretations, as found … Read more