[Tim Peters] >> Or my personal favorite, >> >> while mylist: >> del mylist[::2] >> >> Then the original index positions with the most consecutive trailing 1 >> bits survive the longest, which is important to avoid ZODB cache bugs >> <wink>.
[Christos Georgiou] > This is a joke, hopefully, and in that case, I fell for it. If not, please > provide a url with related discussion (for educational purposes :) Fell for what? It's certainly true that the code snippet allows the original index positions with the most consecutive trailing 1 bits to survive the longest (on the first iteration, all even index positions (no trailing 1 bits) are deleted, and you don't really need a URL to figure out what happens on the i'th iteration). The idea that this is helpful in avoiding anything's "cache bugs" is purely <wink>-worthy, though. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
