gather information from various files efficiently

[Mike Meyer]

Simon Brunning <simon.brunning at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:40:56 -0500, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>> Keith Dart wrote:
>> > Sigh, this reminds me of a discussion I had at my work once... It seems
>> > to write optimal Python code one must understand various probabilites of
>> > your data, and code according to the likely scenario.
>> 
>> And this is different from optimizing in *any* other language
>> in what way?
>
> In other languages, by the time you get the bloody thing working it's
> time to ship, and you don't have to bother worrying about making it
> optimal.

+1 QOTW.

   <mike

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