python编程性能之数据替换

str.replace远快于正则替换，它更加显式，简单，快。

Ipython 环境测试：

In [1]: import re

In [2]: text = """For python 2.5, 2.6, should I be using string.replace or re.sub for basic text replacements.
In PHP, this was explicitly stated but I can't find a similar note for python.
"""

In [3]: timeit text.replace('e', 'X')
1000000 loops, best of 3: 735 ns per loop

In [4]: timeit re.sub('e', 'X', text)
100000 loops, best of 3: 5.52 us per loop

这段代码来自stackoverflow, timeit是ipython独有的magic功能.

我测了下，str.repalce 比 re.sub快2倍多一些(python2.7.13)。