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On 2/13/14 9:45 PM, forman.simon@gmail.com wrote:
> For the record I wasn't worried about the performance.  ;-)
>
> It was for Tkinter event strings not markup tags.
>
> I'm glad this was the time winner!
>
> "key and key[0] == '<' and key[-1] == '>'"
>
>
> Cheers to the folks who did the timings (and saved me from the trouble!)
>
> Last but not least...  s[::len(s)-1]   omg!!?   ;-D
>

If you aren't worried about performance, why are you choosing your code 
based on which is the fastest?  There are other characteristics 
(clarity, flexibility, robustness, ...) that could be more useful.

-- 
Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com

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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
  Re: A curious bit of code... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-14 07:29 +1100
  Re: A curious bit of code... Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2014-02-13 14:39 -0600
  Re: A curious bit of code... Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-02-13 12:55 -0800
    Re: A curious bit of code... Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-13 16:24 -0500
      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
  Re: A curious bit of code... Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-02-13 22:06 +0100
  Re: A curious bit of code... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-14 08:10 +1100
  Re: A curious bit of code... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-13 21:14 +0000
  Re: A curious bit of code... Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 15:20 -0600
  Re: A curious bit of code... Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 15:19 -0600
  Re: A curious bit of code... Emile van Sebille <emile@fenx.com> - 2014-02-13 13:23 -0800
  Re: A curious bit of code... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-14 08:31 +1100
    Re: A curious bit of code... Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-13 16:38 -0500
  Re: A curious bit of code... Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 15:47 -0600
  Re: A curious bit of code... Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2014-02-13 23:49 +0200
    Re: A curious bit of code... Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-02-13 16:51 -0500
  Re: A curious bit of code... Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2014-02-13 13:33 -0800
  Re: A curious bit of code... Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-14 09:13 +1100
  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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