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| From | Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Subject | Re: A curious bit of code... |
| Date | 2014-02-13 19:09 +0000 |
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| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
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On 13/02/2014 18:37, forman.simon@gmail.com wrote:
> I ran across this and I thought there must be a better way of doing it, but then after further consideration I wasn't so sure.
>
> if key[:1] + key[-1:] == '<>': ...
>
>
> Some possibilities that occurred to me:
>
> if key.startswith('<') and key.endswith('>'): ...
>
> and:
>
> if (key[:1], key[-1:]) == ('<', '>'): ...
>
>
> I haven't run these through a profiler yet, but it seems like the original might be the fastest after all?
>
All I can say is that if you're worried about the speed of a single line
of code like the above then you've got problems. Having said that, I
suspect that using an index to extract a single character has to be
faster than using a slice, but I haven't run these through a profiler yet :)
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A curious bit of code... forman.simon@gmail.com - 2014-02-13 10:37 -0800
Re: A curious bit of code... Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-13 13:45 -0500
Re: A curious bit of code... Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-02-13 10:45 -0800
Re: A curious bit of code... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-13 19:09 +0000
Re: A curious bit of code... Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-02-13 20:05 +0100
Re: A curious bit of code... Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-02-13 19:17 +0000
Re: A curious bit of code... Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-02-13 11:20 -0800
Re: A curious bit of code... Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-13 14:28 -0500
Re: A curious bit of code... Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-02-13 11:25 -0800
Re: A curious bit of code... Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-02-13 19:25 +0000
Re: A curious bit of code... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-13 19:32 +0000
Re: A curious bit of code... Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-13 20:43 +0100
Re: A curious bit of code... Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-02-13 21:56 +0200
Re: A curious bit of code... Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-02-13 11:23 -0800
Re: A curious bit of code... Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-02-13 19:51 +0000
Re: A curious bit of code... Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-02-13 11:59 -0800
Re: A curious bit of code... Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 13:59 -0600
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Re: A curious bit of code... Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-02-13 16:23 -0800
Re: A curious bit of code... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-14 08:01 +1100
Re: A curious bit of code... Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2014-02-13 21:01 +0000
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Re: A curious bit of code... Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-02-13 14:26 -0800
Re: A curious bit of code... Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-02-13 19:29 -0500
Re: A curious bit of code... forman.simon@gmail.com - 2014-02-13 18:45 -0800
Re: A curious bit of code... Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-02-13 22:26 -0500
Re: A curious bit of code... forman.simon@gmail.com - 2014-02-14 12:04 -0800
Re: A curious bit of code... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-14 21:01 +0000
Re: A curious bit of code... Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-02-14 07:19 -0500
Re: A curious bit of code... Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-14 09:06 -0500
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