Optimisation problem

[Erik Max Francis]

gabor wrote:

> you're saying that for example
> 
> x,y = 2,4
> 
> creates a tuple?
> 
> i thought thatr x,y=2,4 is the same as x=2;y=4

It does the same thing, but it creates a tuple (right hand side) and
then unpacks it (left hand side) to do the multiple assignment.

Technically speaking, the separate assignments will be faster (since
they do not have the overhead of creating and the unpacking a tuple). 
However, as I've maintained before, if you're _really_ in the situation
where this tiny change will make the difference between unacceptable run
times and unacceptable runtimes, Python is probably not the proper
choice of language for your project anyway.

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