Shashwat Anand wrote:
>  @Bob: the solution seems promising, and it's fast. Thanks for the 
>  improvement. However I would like to do a minor change to the code to 
>  prevent it going to infinite loop.
> 
>  import string
> 
>  text = raw_input()
>  translationTable = string.maketrans(string.ascii_uppercase + 
>  string.ascii_lowercase, 'u'*26 + 'l'*26)
>  translatedText = text.translate(translationTable)
>  start = 0
>  while True:
>   start = translatedText.find('lul', start)
>   if start >= 0:
>    print text[start:start+3]
>    start += 1
>   else:
>    break
> 
Good catch. My bad!

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