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Subject: Re: relative speed of incremention syntaxes (or "i=i+1" VS "i+=1")
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:11:46 -0400
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On 8/21/2011 7:41 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:

> Agreed. If Python needed a faster alternative to "a=a+1", then I would
> recommend an "a.inc()" call or something

But looking up the method name, creating a bound method wrapper, and 
making the call would probably be slower than the syntax;-).

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy