[Python] Super fast way to compare if two strings are equal

Discussão em 'Python' iniciado por Stack, Março 1, 2025.

  1. Stack

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    Obviously, in Python to check whether two strings are equal you can do:

    "hello word" == "hello world"

    But what if you are comparing really long strings (in excess of 1m characters)? Is there a built in way or any libraries in python that can do this much faster; perhaps utilizing the Karp–Rabin algorithm or something similar?

    Or, under the hood, is stringA == stringB actually the fastest method?

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