Steve Holden wrote:
> And statements like that are probably going to annoy me ;-)
>
> >>> t = timeit.Timer("b = map(lambda x: x-1, a)", setup="a=[1,2,3]")
> >>> t.timeit()
> 2.4686168214116599
> >>> t = timeit.Timer("b = [x-1 for x in a]", setup="a=[1,2,3]")
> >>> t.timeit()
> 0.9930245324475635
> >>>And now someone's probably reading this and thinking that list comprehensions are *always* faster than "map"... </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
