Speed issues

[Chuck Esterbrook]

What Stefan has shown should be _much_ faster because maps are generally faster than for loops.

Everyone on this thread should really check out this fascinating article which directly relates:

     http://www.python.org/doc/essays/list2str.html


I found this in the FAQ, which I highly recommend as well:

     http://www.python.org/doc/FAQ.html


-Chuck


Stefan Schwarzer wrote:

> Hi Gerrit,
>
> Gerrit Holl schrieb:
> > is an assigment slower than appending to a list?
> > [...]
> > What is faster? What do you prefer?
>
> In addition to that what others have said: What about (not tested)
>
> def f( s ):
>     o = map( lambda c: chr( ord(c)/2 ), s )
>     return string.join( o, '' )
>
> How will this compare?
>
> Stefan