On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 09:46, Alan Gauld <[email protected]> wrote: > If you always convert the values back to strings then you could > just hold onto the original strings by storing them in a (str, val) tuple. > If you do calculations and modify anmy of them then convert the > value/string there and then and modify the tuple. You could even > make it a class with the convertion fiunctions being methods. > But whether the extra complexity is worthwhile will depend on > what proportion of values get modified. If its a small proportion > then the gain in speed from not doing the reverse convertion might > be worth it. In most cases what you have done is probably the > simplest approach and if its fast enough then don't worry about it!
This is too complex and the speed is good enough for 2000 lines in the file. however... I am doing this to learn about python and programming. So I am interested how this class would look like. Could you give an example or point me in the right direction how I can figure it out for myself? Thanks Sander _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
