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[Donald Beaudry]

Bill Scherer <scherbi at bam.com> wrote,
> I just did a little test and found this to be substantially fatser than the
> other three:
> 
> import random
> randint = random.randint
> 
> r = []
> 
> for i in xrange(1,10000):
>     r.append(randint(1,10))
> 
> for i in r: print i
> #

...then this one should be really impressive ;)

  def do_it():
      from random import randint
      r = []
      append = r.append
      for i in xrange(1,10000):
         append(randint(i))
      for i in r:
         print i

  do_it()

or better yet:

  def do_it():
      from random import randint
      r = []
      append = r.append
      map(append, xrange(1,10000))
      for i in r:
         print i

  do_it()

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