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translate tables versus replace

Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters mertz at gnosis.cx
Thu Oct 31 23:38:50 EST 2002 
David Bear <david.bear at asu.edu> wrote previously:
|But then I thought perhaps a translate table would work.  A translate table
|that would convert the badchars into a space might work.  I was hoping
|there was an easier way.  However my biggest concern is performance of
|successive calls to replace versus a call to translate.  Which might be
|'faster'...?

Gee... why not TEST it using the time.clock() facility.  It looks like
all of about 10 lines of code are needed to compare the two techniques
(far fewer lines than in the post asking the question).

Yours, Lulu...

P.S. After you're done testing, you'll find that string.translate
probably runs 100x faster.  But you'll feel better if you test it
yourself.

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