Trivial performance questions

Alex Martelli aleax at aleax.it
Mon Oct 20 12:58:59 EDT 2003


Michael Hudson wrote:

> Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
> 
>> Peter Hansen wrote:
>>    ...
>> > A quick inspection of the code backs up the empirical evidence,
>> > showing no Python 2.2+ dependencies that don't have automatic
>> > fallbacks (as with the attempt to include itertools).
>> 
>> My, but that timbot guy IS good.  Envy, envy...
> 
> a) I'm pretty sure timeit.py was written by Guido (he's not bad, either

Ooops yes -- it mentions Tim Peters in the docstring in a way that
should make it pretty obvious it's not written by Tim (only Julius
Caesar wrote of himself in 3rd person in just that way...)... silly me...!


Alex





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