Map with an extra parameter
Simon Forman
rogue_pedro at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 9 03:34:57 EDT 2006
ml1n wrote:
> bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> > This may be what you need:
> >
> > class foo:
> > def __init__(self, a, b):
> > self.a = a
> > self.b = b
> >
> > vars = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
> > objects = [foo(a, 1) for a in vars]
> >
> >
> > Note that in Python the new is expressed wit the () at the end:
> >
> > > f = new foo()
> >
> > Bye,
> > bearophile
>
> (Not sure if this group likes top or bottom posts, sorry)
> Thanks for the reply,
> In the interests of speed my thinking was that using map would move the
> loop out of Python and into C, is that the case when using list
> comprehension? I'd always thought it was just syntatic short hand for
> a Python loop.
>
> M.
Your thinking is correct. :-) Check out
http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.python/msg/7a56cf1a052b9c5d
wherein Fredrik Lundh shows the difference by bytecode disassembly.
Peace,
~Simon
P.S. Bottom posts.
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