list.without()?

[Mike Fletcher]

Shouldn't make a big difference, as they exception only occurs once (when
you're out of elements to remove).  Doesn't challenge the front-runners
anyway.

Enjoy,
Mike

# Following just ran the original without and Chris' as without6

p:\>without
Testing function: <function without at 7d7f00>
  single element at middle:
    10: 0.0
    100: 0.0
    1000: 0.0
    10000: 0.00999999046326
    100000: 0.0699999332428
    1000000: 1.11199998856

  all elements being removed:
    10: 0.120000004768
    100: 0.0
    1000: 0.0100001096725
    10000: 0.770999908447
    100000: 78.7929999828
###Note: Tests skipped due to time overrun

Testing function: <function without6 at 7e0340>
  single element at middle:
    10: 0.0
    100: 0.0
    1000: 0.0
    10000: 0.0
    100000: 0.0710000991821
    1000000: 1.10099995136

  all elements being removed:
    10: 0.129999995232
    100: 0.0
    1000: 0.00999999046326
    10000: 0.761000037193
    100000: 79.8550000191
###Note: Tests skipped due to time overrun

-----Original Message-----
From: python-list-admin at python.org
[mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Christian Tismer
Sent: November 16, 1999 3:28 PM
To: Mike Fletcher
Cc: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: list.without()?




Mike Fletcher wrote:
>
> Hmm, actually, it's only cheap for certain subsets of the problem (which I
> took to be the common case).  In particular, it shines for small numbers
of
> instances in lists of fairly arbitrary size.  It falls down completely
when
> you are removing large numbers of instances (such as all of them).  I just
> tested five algos, testing 1 instance in middle of list, and a list
composed
> of only elements to be removed, findings, module, and raw test results
> below...

Oh well, I overlooked that you have the try inside the while.
That's bad. I thought I had read this:

def without( source, element):
        temp = source[:]
        try:
                while temp:
                        temp.remove( element )
        except:
            return temp
        return temp

Did you try this (I didn't, have no time).

cheers - chris

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