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Out of curiosity, I gave it a shot. I came out roughly 20% faster using python's inbuilt csv library. When I switched to pypy the csv library actually made it

Out of curiosity, I gave it a shot. I came out roughly 20% faster using python's inbuilt csv library. When I switched to pypy the csv library actually made it nearly 2x slower than pypy using .split(delim)

paulddraper 9y ago
And you were using the pure Python CSV library, not the C one?
- d33 9y ago
  How can you tell?
- Twirrim 9y ago
  I used the stdlib one, just straight "import csv"
nerdponx 9y ago
Of course it's faster. Sorry, I wasn't clear. But good luck handling a tab in a quoted field, then.