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Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists

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On 01/02/2015 18:14, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-02-01, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>> The one-liner might not be better code, but it must be better speed wise
>>> precisely because it's on one line, right? :)
>>
>> Well of course it is. Python code speed is always measured in lines
>> per minute. That's why you should eliminate blank lines from your
>> code.
>
> No, you've got that backwards.  You want _more_ blank lines. A blank
> line takes zero time to run, but it still counts as a line in your
> lines/second stats.
>
> A loop containing 1 line of code will execute in the same abount of
> time as that loop with 1 line of code and 99 blanks lines.
>
> The latter loop is running at 100 times as many lines/second as the
> former.   That's _got_ to be better.
>

At long last my quest seeking the final entry for the Zen of Python is 
over.  I'll be delighted to let you accept the honour of raising an 
issue on the bug tracker to get the "this" module changed to reflect my 
new found wisdom.

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists rajanbond@gmail.com - 2015-01-30 18:27 -0800
  Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-01-31 13:38 +1100
  Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists Jason Friedman <jsf80238@gmail.com> - 2015-01-31 19:38 -0700
    Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists rajanbond@gmail.com - 2015-02-02 10:48 -0800
    Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists rajanbond@gmail.com - 2015-02-02 11:00 -0800
  Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-01 03:06 +0000
  Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-01 14:22 +1100
    Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-02-01 18:14 +0000
      Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-01 18:49 +0000
      Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists mm0fmf <none@mailinator.com> - 2015-02-01 18:52 +0000
      Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-01 12:36 -0700
        Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists wxjmfauth@gmail.com - 2015-02-02 23:13 -0800
      Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-01 20:28 +0000
      Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-02 07:33 +1100
  Re: Create dictionary based of x items per key from two lists Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-01 11:51 -0700

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