2001 mxTextTools is a powerful extension module that lets Python programmers flexibly process text files at a lightning fast speed.
Speed comes at the price of some work, however.
The tips and techniques in this column will guide a reader towards developing text processing programs utilizing mxTextTools . Python is available for almost every computer platform you might find yourself working on, and has strong portability between platforms. Introduction One of the strengths of Python is a good set of text processing tools. The inherent tools are powerful, flexible, and easy to work with. One thing Python's built-in text processing is not is particularly fast.