"ABO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > There are other "optimisations" that could be applied that make this > code faster but uglier. For example, putting another "while True: loop > inside the try block to avoid the try block setup each iteration.
In CPython, 'setting up' try-blocks is (intentionally) very fast, perhaps as fast or faster than one interation loop. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
