David E. Sallis said the following on 10/25/2010 12:54 PM: > 3) Next, the so-called 'double under' methods (__contains__(), __getattr__()) > are generally intended for internal use only by their containing objects. A > better way would be to use the 'in' operator; to wit (note also the binding of > node.attr.items()): > > nodeAttrItems = node.attrs.items() > if attrItems[0] not in nodeAttrItems: ... > if nodeAttrItems[0] <> attrItems[1]: ... > > Also if you did this you can eliminate your innermost loop.
Whoops, brain fart. I guess you still need to iterate through attrItems, but the other suggestions might still improve your run time somewhat... -- David E. Sallis, Senior Principal Engineer, Software General Dynamics Information Technology NOAA Coastal Data Development Center Stennis Space Center, Mississippi 228.688.3805 david.sal...@gdit.com david.sal...@noaa.gov -------------------------------------------- "Better Living Through Software Engineering" -------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Pytables-users mailing list Pytables-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pytables-users
