On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Senthil Kumaran <orsent...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> timeit.Timer("for i in range(1000):
>>>> l.append(i)","l=[]").timeit(number=1000)
> 0.21927285194396973
>
> You see that is slow and the reason is l.append being called again
> and again. lets eliminate it.
Sorry, it is slow because the append method "Look-up" on the list
object is done again and again.
Read further. Rest of my explanation is okay.
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Senthil
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