Any suggestions?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <8qgev7$oir$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <rick_richardson at my-deja.com> wrote:
>Aahz:
>>
>> That seems a little odd.  Are these non-trivial projects?  Have you done
>> any work to optimize the Python code?
>
>I didn't know I could.

Of course you can.  Here's a simple example:

  str = ''
  for word in words:
    str = str + ' ' + word

That code can be easily optimized to

  str = string.join(words)

Every language has its efficient coding tricks; the neat thing about
Python is that once you've gotten a decent handle on its tricks, you can
concentrate on algorithmic improvements -- even if your C code is a
hundred times faster than the Python code, you'll be unhappy as soon as
you hit non-trivial inputs if your C code is O(N^2) and your Python code
is O(NlogN).
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