loop beats generator expr creating large dict!?

[David Isaac]

> Alan Isaac wrote:
> > The current situation is:  use a loop because the obvious generator
> > approach is not efficient.


"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote in message
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> "not efficient" compared to what ?

I already guess that I've missed your point, but to prove it...
I was referring to the beginning of this thread
where George noted that
palettes = dict((w,set(w)) for w in words)
runs slower than
palettes={}
for w in words:
   palettes[w]=set(w)
The reason seems obvious: the otiose tuple creation,
but there is no "more efficient" syntax to use with 'dict'.

Alan Isaac