Optimisation problem - in C?

[Johann Hibschman]

Tim Churches writes:

> Questions:
> Can this function (which essentially does the fairly generic operation
> of "fetch the elements of sequence a using the element indexes contained
> in sequence b") be optimised without resorting to a C module?

The Numeric module has a "take" function, which does exactly what you
want.

You will have to convert your lists into numeric arrays of python
objects, but that shouldn't be difficult.

--J

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Johann Hibschman                           johann at physics.berkeley.edu