From: Kent Dahl <kentda@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T04:19:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Speed up suggestions

Kent Dahl wrote:
> I am confused. Ruby '\n' is not equivalent with Ruby "\n", so a
> difference would not be unexpected. (The size of the difference perhaps)
> In Python, "\n" and '\n' are the same and equivalent to Ruby "\n".
> 
> It appears to me that the original comparision is null and void, since
> it does not do the same thing. Has anybody looked closer at the output
> of the Python vs the Ruby versions, like running a diff? It sure looks
> different to me...

Sorry, I had a brainfart on the latter. The output is the same. 
But that is even more confusing. I was expecting:
  "yabba\dabba\\none".split("\\n") == ["yabba\dabba", "one"]

Is there some extra conversion being done to the delimiter inside split?

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