Ethan Furman wrote: > Can you do those with _pydecimal? If performance were an issue anywhere I > would expect to see it with number crunching.
No difference, probably because those methods look like they spend most of their time doing string manipulation: ``` $ export PYPERFSETUP='from _pydecimal import Decimal; from random import getrandbits; l = Decimal(bin(getrandbits(28))[2:]); r = Decimal(bin(getrandbits(28))[2:])' $ export PYPERFRUN='l.logical_and(r); l.logical_or(r); l.logical_xor(r)' $ ./python-master -m pyperf timeit -s "$PYPERFSETUP" "$PYPERFRUN" Mean +- std dev: 53.4 us +- 2.8 us $ ./python-zip-strict -m pyperf timeit -s "$PYPERFSETUP" "$PYPERFRUN" Mean +- std dev: 53.8 us +- 2.5 us $ ./python-zip-strict -m pyperf timeit -s "$PYPERFSETUP" "$PYPERFRUN" # This time, with strict=True in each method. Mean +- std dev: 53.6 us +- 3.0 us ``` I would encourage those who are still curious to pull the branch and experiment for themselves. Let's try to keep this a design discussion, since we've established that performance isn't a problem (and there is plenty of time for code review later). > Paul Moore and Chris Angelico have made good arguments in favor of an > itertools addition which haven't been answered yet. I don't consider their arguments particularly strong, but yeah, I was getting to those. I wanted to address your points first since you weren't part of the Ideas discussion! Paul Moore wrote: > ... so it's another beast because (among other reasons) it lives in a > separate namespace, and it should live in a separate namespace because it's > another beast? That's circular logic. Sorry, that's on me for trying to respond to two questions with one answer right before bed. Strike the namespace argument, then. The rest stands. > So importing zip_strict from itertools is an entirely reasonable way for > users to enable the check, then. Still agreed. But I think they would be *better* served by the proposed keyword argument. This whole sub-thread of discussion has left me very confused. Was anything unclear in the PEP's phrasing here? If so, I'd like to improve it. The original quote is: "The goal here is not just to provide a way to catch bugs, but to also make it easy (even tempting) for a user to enable the check whenever using `zip` at a call site with this property." > It's very easy to suggest bad ways of using a feature. That doesn't make the > feature bad. You seem to be arguing that zip_strict is bad because people can > misuse it. Well, I addressed this "irrelevant" point because right out of the gate people started suggesting that they want a separate function *because* it makes shadowing easy. Which brings me to my next quote: Chris Angelico wrote: > I am most in favour of the separate-functions option *because* it makes > shadowing easy. Not an anti-pattern at all. I *really* hope this isn't how people use this (and I don't *think* it would be predominantly used this way), but at least it's clear to me now why you want it to be a separate function. It would still be quite simple to follow this pattern, though, with `functools.partial` or a custom wrapper. > Python is *deliberately* designed so that you can shadow things. I wouldn't confuse "can" and "should" here. Python is deliberately designed to make *many* design patterns possible, good and bad. > And considering that "from __future__ import print_function" is an > officially-sanctioned way to cause a semantic change to print, I don't think > it's really that strong an argument. Well that's a parser directive that is just there for 2/3 compatibility (I'm pretty sure - I've never used Python 2). I see it as very, very different from my `from pprint import pprint as print` headache that was quoted two levels up. Brandt _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/67O5FJA5MB26WWAC7VV5IUQMEKMLCNYK/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
