[Python-Dev] _socket efficiencies ideas (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Thu, 10 Apr 2003 13:15:05 +1200 (NZST)

Marcus Mendenhall <marcus.h.mendenhall@vanderbilt.edu>:

Just: if (string[0]=='<' && not strncmp(string,"",9)) {whatever}

By the same token, checking whether the first char is a digit ought to weed out about 99.999% of all non-numeric domain name addresses.

If this is even a problem, which I doubt. We're talking about something called from Python, for goodness sake...

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