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Map with an extra parameter

ml1n emlyn at brizzle.com
Fri Sep 8 20:46:58 EDT 2006 
bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> ml1n wrote:
> > In the interests of speed my thinking was that using map would move the
> > loop out of Python and into C, is that the case when using list
> > comprehension?  I'd always thought it was just syntatic short hand for
> > a Python loop.
>
> In Python the faster things are often the most simple.
> You can time your code to see what's faster.
> And even better you may try the simpler solution, and if the program
> results too much slow with a profiling you can find the spots needing
> improvements.
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Looks like someone already did:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-January/259870.html

Thanks for the shove in the right direction.

M.
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