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Re: Why generators take long time?

From	Jason Swails <jason.swails@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: Why generators take long time?
Date	2016-01-19 15:25 -0500
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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:19 PM, Jason Swails <jason.swails@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I use generator expressions when
>
> - I *might* want to
>

I forgot to finish my thought here.  I use generator expressions when I
don't want to worry about memory, there's a decent chance of
short-circuiting, or I just want to do some simple iteration where the
iterator will not be the bottleneck (which is almost always).

-- 
Jason M. Swails
BioMaPS,
Rutgers University
Postdoctoral Researcher

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