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Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine?

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On 1/22/12 3:50 PM, Rick Johnson wrote:
>
> What does Python do when presented with this code?
>
> py>  [line.strip('\n') for line in f.readlines()]
>
> If Python reads all the file lines first and THEN iterates AGAIN to do
> the strip; we are driving a Fred flintstone mobile. If however Python
> strips each line of the lines passed into readlines in one fell swoop,
> we made the correct choice.
>
> Which is it Pythonistas? Which is it?

The .readlines() method is an old API that predates the introduction of 
iterators to Python. The modern way to do this in one iteration is to use the 
file object as an iterator:

   [line.strip('\n') for line in f]

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco

Thread

Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-22 07:50 -0800
  Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? Heiko Wundram <modelnine@modelnine.org> - 2012-01-22 18:52 +0100
  Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2012-01-22 18:01 +0000
    Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-23 10:56 -0800
    Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2012-01-23 10:56 -0800
      Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-01-23 22:44 -0800
        Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-01-24 19:14 +1100
  Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-01-22 17:38 -0700
    Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohnson@gmail.com> - 2012-01-22 17:04 -0800
      Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-01-22 18:32 -0700
  Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-01-23 09:11 +0000
  Re: Looking under Python's hood: Will we find a high performance or clunky engine? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-23 16:08 +0000

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